
THE 



ORIGINAL INSTITUTION 



IOF THE! 



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AS FORMED BY 

||| Officers it fa ^rniu af the ttnifc* ggg(g| 

AT THE CONCLUSION OF 

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 

WHICH GAVE 
INDEPENDENCE ^jaEI^IC^. 

TOGETHER WITH THE 

nU$ and of % -$tafc $M*tg of ^oitllj '^awlina, 

As Adopted July 4, 1848, and Amended; 
AND ALSO, 

A LIST OP OFFICERS AND MEMBERS, 

AND 

A ROSTER OF OFFICERS IN C0N1INENTAL SERVICE. 



PUBLISHED BY ORDER FOR THE TTSE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. 



CHARLESTON, S. C. 

WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL, PRINTERS. 
I88l. 



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THE 

ORIGINAL INSTITUTION 

OF THE 

GENERAL SOCIETY OE THE 
CINCINNATI, 

AS FORMED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED 
STATES, AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE 

REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 

WHICH GAVE INDEPENDENCE TO 

AMERICA. 



Together with the Rules and By-Laws 
of THE 

STATE SOCIETY OE SOUTH CAROLINA, 

AS ADOPTED JULY 4th, 1848. 



PUBLISHED BY ORDER. FOR THE USE OF THE MEMBERS 
OF THE SOCIETY. 



CHARLESTON, S. C. 

.WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL, PRINTERS, 
Nos. 3 Broad and 109 East Bay Streets. 
I880. 



WITH THE 

ORIGINAL INSTITUTION OF THE ORDER. 



Cantonment of the American Army, on Hudson's River, 
ioth May, 1783. 

Proposals for establishing a Society, upon principles there- 
in mentioned, whose members shall be officers of the Ameri- 
can Army, having been communicated to the several regi- 
ments of the respective lines, they appointed an officer from 
each, who, in consideration at their meeting this day, at which 
the Honorable Major- General Baron de Steuben, the senior 
officer present, was pleased to preside. 

The proposals being read, fully considered, paragraph by 
paragraph, and the amendments agreed to. 

Major-General Knox, 
Brigadier-General Hand, 
Brigadier-General Huntingdon, and 
Captain Shaw, 

were chosen to revise the same, and prepare a copy to be laid 
before this Assembly at their next meeting, to be holden at 
Major-General Baron de Steuben's quarters, on Tuesday, 
the 13th instant. 



Tuesday, 13th May, 1783. 
The representatives of the American Army being assem- 
bled, agreeably to adjournment, the plan for establishing a 
Society, whereof the officers of the American Army are to be 
members, is accepted, and is as follows, viz : 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



> SkMi it III € 



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" It having pleased the Supreme Governor of the Universe, 
in the disposition of human affairs, to cause the separation 
of North America from the domination of Great Britain, 
and after a bloody conflict of eight years, to establish them 
free, independent, and sovereign States, connected by allian- 
ces founded on reciprocal advantages, with some of the great 
Princes and powers of the earth. 

" To perpetuate, therefore, as well the remembrance of the 
vast event, as the mutual friendship which has been formed 
under the pressure of common danger, and, in many instances, 
cemented by the blood of the parties, the officers of the 
American Army do hereby, in the most solemn manner, 
associate, constitute and combine themselves into one Society 
of Friends, to endure as long as they shall endure, or any of 
their eldest male posterity, and in failure thereof, the collateral 
branches who may be judged worthy of becoming its 
supporters and members. 

" The officers of the American Army, having generally been 
taken from the citizens of America, possess high veneration for 
the character of that illustrious Roman, Lucius Quintius Cin- 
cinnatus, and being resolved to follow his example, by return- 
ing to their citizenship, they think they may, with propriety, 
denominate themselves the Society of the Cincinnati. 

" The following principles shall be immutable, and form 
the basis of the Society of the Cincinnati : 

" An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted 
rights and liberties of human nature for which they have 
fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a 
rational being is a curse instead of a blessing. 

" An unalterable determination to promote and cherish, 
between the respective States, that union and national honor 
so essentially necessary to their happiness and the future 
dignity of the American Empire. 

" To render permanent the cordial affection subsisting 
among the officers. This spirit will dictate brotherly kind- 
ness in all things, particularly extend to the most substantial 
acts of beneficence, according to the ability of the Society, 
towards those officers and their families who, unfortunately, 
may be under the necessity of receiving it. 

" The General Society will, for the sake of frequent com- 
munications, be divided into State Societies, and these again 
into such districts as shall be directed by the State Society. 

" The Societies of the Districts to meet as often as shall be 
agreed upon by the State Society ; those of the State on- the 
fourth day of July, annually, so long as they shall deem it 
necessary, and afterwards, at least once in every three years. 



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"At each meeting, the principles of the institution will be 
fully considered, and the best measure to promote them 
adopted. 

" The State Societies will consist of all the members resi- 
dent in each State respectively; and any member removing 
from one State to another, is to be considered in all respects, 
as belonging to the Society of the State in which he shall 
actually reside. 

"The State Societies to have a President, Vice-President, 
Secretary, Treasurer, and Assistant Treasurer, to be chosen 
annually by a majority of votes at the State meeting. 

" Each State meeting shall write annually, or oftener, if 
necessary, a circular letter, to the other State Societies, noting 
whatever they may think worthy of observation, respecting 
the good of the Society, or the general union of the States 
and, giving information of the officers chosen for the current 
year; copies of these letters shall be regularly transmitted to 
the Secretary-General of the Society, who will record them 
in a book to be assigned for that purpose. 

" The State Society will regulate everything respecting 
itself and the Societies of its district consistent with the 
general maxims of the Cincinnati, judge of the qualifications 
of the members who may be proposed, and expel any mem- 
ber who, by a conduct inconsistent with a gentlemen and a 
man of honor, or by an opposition to the interests of the 
community in general, or the Society in particular, may 
render himself unworthy to continue a member. 

"In order to form funds which may be respectable and 
assist the unfortunate, each officer shall deliver to the Treas- 
urer of the State Society, one month's pay, which shall remain 
forever to the use of the State Society; the interest only of 
which, if necessary, to be appropriated to the relief of the 
unfortunate. 

" Donations may be made by persons not of the Society, 
and by members of the Society, for the express purpose of 
forming permanent funds for the use of the State Society, and 
the interests of these donations appropriated in the same 
manner as that of the month's pay. 

" Moneys, at the pleasure of each member, may be sub- 
scribed in the Societies of the Districts, or the State Societies, 
for the relief of the unfortunate members, or their widows and 
orphans, to be appropriated by the State Society only. 

"The meeting of the General Society shall consist of its 
officers and a representation from each State Society, in num- 
ber not exceeding five, whose expenses shall be borne by 
their respective State Societies. 



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" In the general meeting, the President,- Vice-President, 
Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, and Assistant 
Treasurer-Generals, shall be chosen to serve until the next 
meeting. 

" The circular letters which have been written by the re- 
spective State Societies to each other, and their particular 
laws, shall be read and considered, and all measures con- 
certed which may conduce to the general intendment of the 
Society. 

" It is probable that some persons may make donations to 
the General Society, for the purpose of establishing funds for 
the further comfort of the unfortunate, in which case such 
donations must be placed in the hands of the Treasurer-Gen- 
eral, the interest only of which to be disposed of, if necessary, 
by the general meeting. 

"All the officers of the American Army, as well those 
who have resigned with honor, after three years' service in 
the capacity of officers, or who have been deranged by the 
resolutions of Congress, upon the several reforms of the 
Army, as those who shall have continued to the end of the war, 
have the right to become parties to this institution ; provided 
they subscribe one month's pay, and sign their names to the 
general rules in their respective State Societies, those who are 
present with the Army immediately, and within six months 
after the Army shall be disbanded, extraordinary cases ex- 
cepted ; the rank, time of service, resolution of Congress by 
which any have been deranged, and place of residence, must 
be added to each name, and as a testimony of affection to the 
memory, and the offspring of such officers as have died in the 
service, their eldest male branches shall have the same right 
of becoming members, as the actual members of the Society. 

"Those officers who are foreigners, not resident in any of 
the States, will have their names enrolled by the Secretary- 
General, and are to be considered as members in the Societies 
of any of the States he may happen to be. 

" And as there are, and "will at times be, men in the respec- 
tive States eminent for their abilities and patriotism, whose 
views may be directed to the same laudable objects with 
those of the Cincinnati, it shall be a rule to admit such char- 
acters as honorary members of the Society for their own lives 
only : Provided, alivays, that the number of honorary mem- 
bers in each State does not exceed a ratio of one to four of the 
officers or their descendants. 

" Each State Society shall obtain a list of its members, and 
at the first annual meeting the State Secretary shall have 



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engrossed, on parchment, two copies of the institution of the 
Society, which every member present shall sign, and the 
Secretary shall endeavor to procure the signature of every 
absent member ; one of those lists to be transmitted to the 
Secretary-General, to be kept in the archives of the Society, 
and the other to remain in the hands of the State Secretary. 
From the State lists the Secretary-General must make out, at 
the first general meeting, a complete list of the whole Society, 
with a copy of which he will furnish each State Secretary. 

" The Society shall have an Order, by which its members 
shall be known and distinguished, which shall be a medal of 
gold, of a proper size to receive the emblems, and suspended 
by a deep blue ribbon two inches wide, edged with white, 
descriptive of the union of France and America, viz : 

THE PRINCIPLE FIGURE, 

CINCINNATUS, . 

THREE SENATORS PRESENTING HIM WITH A SWORD 
AND OTHER MILITARY ENSIGNS — ON A 
FIELD IN THE BACK-GROUND, 
HIS WIFE STANDING AT 

THE DOOR OF THEIR COTTAGE NEAR IT A 

PLOUGH AND INSTRUMENTS OF HUSBANDRY. 
ROUND THE WHOLE, 

OMNIA RELIQUIT SERVARE REM PUBLIC AM. 

ON THE REVERSE, 
SUN RISING — A CITY WITH OPEN GATES, AND VESSELS 
ENTERING THE PORT — FAME CROWNING 
CINCINNATUS, WITH A WREATH INSCRIBED, 

VIRTUTIS PR/EMIUM. 

BELOW, , 
HANDS JOINED, SUPPORTING A HEART, 
WITH THE MOTTO, 

ESTO PERPETUA. 



ROUND THE WHOLE, 

SOCIETAS CINCINNATORUM INSTITUTA. 
A. D. 1783. 



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The Society, deeply impressed with sense of the generous 
assistance this country has received from France, and desirous 
of perpetuating the friendships which have been formed, and 
so happily subsisted between the officers of the allied forces in 
the -prosecution of the war, direct that the President-General 
transmit, as soon as may be, to each of the characters here- 
after named a medal containing the Order of the Society, viz. : 

His Excellency the Chevalier de la. Luzerne, Minister 
Plenipotentiary. 

His Excellency the Sieur Gerard, late Minister Plenipoten 
tiary. 

Their Excellencies — 

The Count de Estaing, 
The Count de Grasse, 
The Count De Barras, 
The Chevalier de Touches, 
Admirals and Commanders in the Navy. • 
His Excellency the Count de Rochambeau, Commander in 
Chief. 

And the Generals and Colonels of his army, and ac- 
quaint them that the Society does itself the honor to consider 
them members. 

Resolved, That a copy of the aforegoing institution be given 
to the senior officer of each State line, and that the officers of 
the respective State lines sign their names to the. same, in 
manner and form following, viz. : 

" We, the subscribers, officers of the American Army, do 
hereby voluntarily become parties to the foregoing institution, 
and do bind ourselves to observe and be governed by the 
principles therein contained. For the performance whereof 
we do solemnly pledge to each other our sacred honor. 

Done in the Cantonment on Hudson's River, in the year 
'7*3-" 

That the members of the Society, at the time of subscribing 
their names to the institution, do also sign a draft on the Pay- 
master-General, in the following terms (the regiments to do it 
regimentally, and the Generals and other officers not belong- 
ing to the regiments, each for himself individually), viz. : 

" To John Pierce, Esquire, Pay-Master-General to the Army 
of the United States: 

" Sir, — Please to pay to treasurer for the State 

Association of the Cincinnati, or his order, one month's pay 



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of our several grades respectively, and deduct the same from 
the balance which shall be found due to us on the final liqui- 
dation of our accounts, for which this shall be your warrant. 

That the members of the several State Societies assemble 
as soon as may be, for the choice of their President and other 
officers, and that the Presidents correspond together, and 
appoint a meeting of the officers who may be chosen for each 
State, in order to pursue such further measures as may be 
judged necessary. 

That the General officers, and the officers delegated to rep- 
resent the several Corps of the Army, subscribe to the insti- 
tution of the General Society, for themselves and their con- 
stituents, in the manner and form before prescribed. 

That General Heath, 

General Baron de Steuben, and 
General Knox, 

be a committee to wait on His Excellency, the Commander- 
in-chief, with a copy of the institution, and request him to 
honor the Society by placing his name at the head of it. 

That Major-General Heath, second in command in this 
army, be, and he hereby is, desired to transmit copies of the 
institution, with the proceeding thereon, to the commanding 
officer of the Southern Army, the senior officer in each 5tate, 
from Pennsylvania to Georgia, inclusive, and to the com- 
manding officer of the Rhole Island line, requesting them to 
communicate the same to the officers under their several 
commands, and to take such measures as may appear to them 
necessary, expediting the establishment of their State Socie- 
ties, and sending a delegation to represent them in the First 
General Meeting, to be holden on the first Monday in May, 
1784. 

The meeting then adjourned without day. 



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Cantonment of the American Army, io,th June, 1783. 

At a meeting- of the General officers, and the gentlemen 
delegated by the respective regiments, as a convention for 
establishing the Society of the Cincinnati, held by the request 
of the President, at which were present : 

Major-General Baron de Steuben, President. 

■Major-General Howe, 

Major-General Knox, 

Brigadier- General Patterson, 

Brigadier-General Huntingdon, 

Brigadier- General P utnam , 

Colonel Webb, 

Lieutenant- Colonel Huntingdon, 
Major Pettengill, 
Lieutenant Whiting, 
Colonel H. Jackson, 
Captain Shaw, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Hull, 
Lieutenant- Colonel Maxwell, 
Colonel Courtland. 

General Baron de Steuben acquainted the Convention 
that he had, agreeably to their request, at the last meeting, 
transmitted to His Excellency the Chevalier De la Luzerne, 
Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of France, a copy of 
theinstitution of the Society of the Cincinnati, with their vote 
respecting His Excellency, and the other characters therein 
mentioned, and that His Excellency had returned an answer, 
declaring his acceptance of the same, and expressing the 
grateful sense he entertains of the honor conferred on himself, 
and the other gentlemen of the French nation, by this act of 
the Convention. 

Resolved, That 'the letter of the Chevalier de la Luzerne, 
be recorded in the proceedings of this day, and deposited in 
the archives of the Society, as a testimony of the high sense 
this convention entertains of the honor done to the Society 
by his becoming a member thereof. 

The letter is as follows : 

Philadelphia, le 3 Juin, 1783. 

" Monsieur le Baron : 

" J'ai re^u avec beaucoup de reconnoissance les statuts de 
l'orrde respectable que messieurs les officiers de la'mee Ameri- 
cainne viennent de fonder : si le courage, la patience & toutes 
les vertus que cette brave armee a si souvent de deployees 



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dans le cours de cette guerre, pouvoient jamais etre oublies, 
ce monument seul les rapelleroit. 

" J'ose vous assurer, monsieur, que tous les officers de ma 
nation, que vous avez bien voulu admettre dans votre societe, 
en seront infiniment honores ; je vous prie d'etre bien per- 
suade que je sens, en mon particulier, bien vivement l'honneur 
que m'ont fait messieurs les officiers de l'armee en daignant 
penser a moi dans cette occasion. Je compte aller rendre 
mes devoirs a son excellence le general Washington, aussitot 
que le traite definitif sera signe, et j'aurais l'honneur de les 
assurer de vive voix de ma respectueuse reconnoissance. 

"Je saisis avec un grand empressement cette occasion de 
vous renouveller les sentiments du tres parfait et tres re- 
spectueux attachment avec lesquels j'ai l'honneur d'etre. 
Monsieur le Earon, 
votre tres humble, & 
tres obeissant serviteur, 

Le Chevalier de la LUZERNE. 

Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Steuben, Major-General au 
service des Etats Urn's, an Ouarticr-Gcucral." 



Philadelphia, 3d June, 1783. 

"Sir: I have received, with much gratitude, the institution 
of the respectable order that the officers of the American Army- 
have founded ; if courage, patience, and all the virtues that 
this brave army have so often displayed in the course of this 
war could ever be forgotten, this monument alone should recall 
them. I dare assure you, sir, that all the officers of my nation, 
that you have been pleased to admit in your Society, will be 
infinitely honored by it. I pray you to be fully persuaded, 
I feel, for my part, in the most lively manner, the honor the 
officers of the army have done me, in deigning to think of 
me upon this occasion. I expect to pay my respects to his 
Excellency General Washington, as soon as the definitive 
treaty shall be signed, and I shall have the honor of assuring 
them, personally, of my respectful acknowledgement. 

I seize with great eagerness, this occasion of expressing to 
you the sentiments of the most perfect and most respectful 
attachment with which I have the honor to be, 
Sir, your very humble, 

and very obedient servant, 

Le Chevalier de la LUZERNE. 

To Baron de Steuben, Major-General in the service of the 
United States, Head Quarters!' 



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The Baron having also communicated a letter from Major 
l'Enfant, enclosing a design for the medal and order, contain- 
ing the emblems of the institution. 

Resolved, That the bald eagle, carrying the emblems on its 
breast, be established as the order of the Society ; and that 
the ideas of Major l'Enfant, respecting it and the manner of 
its being worn by the members be adopted. That the order 
be of the same size, and in every other respect conformable 
to the said design, which for that purpose, is certified by the 
Baron de Steuben, President of the Convention, and to be de- 
posited in the archives of the Society as the original from which 
all copies are to be made. Also, that silver medals, not exceed- 
ing the size of a Spanish milled dollar, with the emblems, as 
designed by Major l'Enfant and certified by the President, be 
given to each and every member of the Society, together 
with a diploma on parchment, whereon shall be impressed 
the exact figures of the order and medal, as above mentioned, 
anything in the original institution respecting gold medals, to 
the contrary notwithstanding. 

Major l'Enfant's letter is as follows : 

Philadelphia, le 10 Juin, 1783. 

Mon General : 

Aussitot apres la reception de votre lettre en date du 20 
Mai, laquelle ne m'est parvenu que le 7, ayant ete par hazard 
a la poste, je me suis occupe projecto de la medaille. ' Je vous 
envoie les desseins de deux faces, que j'ai faits, en grand, a 
fin qu'on puisse mieux juger de l'ensemble. Lors de 1' execu- 
tion on la reduira a la grandeur convenable, qui pour peu que 
Ton exige de precision dans le dessein, ne doit pas etre plus 
petite qu'un dollar, le sujet se trouvant trop complique pour 
que les details puissent etre apergus sous une plus petite di- 
mension. 

Je ne l'ai point faite ovale, ainsi que vous me le demandez, 
vu que cette forme est peu propre a une medaible ; d'ailleurs 
on pourra toujours la faira au moment de l'execution, si on 
persiste absolument a vouloir porter l'ordre sous cette forme, 
a laquelle je crois que tout autre seroit preferable ; ainsi que' 
je crois et espere que vous en serez bien persuade, & ferez en 
sorte d'en convaincre les personnes qui composent le comite 
relatif a cette institution, auxquelles je vous prie de commu- 
nique!- les observations suivantes. 



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Le medaille, ronde ou ovale, n'est consideree dans les 
differents etats de l'Europe que comme une recompense d'ar- 
tiste, d'artisan, ou comme une signe de communante de 
fabriquants ou societe religieuse — en outre, l'usage abusif que 
Ton en fait, particulierement en Allemange, & en Italie, d' oil 
il arrive en France, des baladins, des musiciens, decores de 
cette maniere, rend necessaire de distinguer cet ordre par une 
forme qui lui soit particuliere, 'et puisse, en honorant celui 
qui en sera decore, remplir le double object de se faire re- 
specter par son simple aspect, de ceux memes qui ne seront 
pas aoortee d'en detailler les differents empreintes. 

Ce n'est pas que je croie qu'une forme, ou une autre changera 
l'opinion d'un peuple republicain accoutume a penser, mais je 
dis, que dans une institution pareille, le premier but doit etre 
de se rendre respectable a tous les peuples du .monde ; et que 
ce n'est qu'en parlant aux yeux qu'on attire 1' attention du 
v^lgaire, qu'il y a des prejuges d'habitude qui ne peuvent etre 
detruits — qu'un homme qualifie et deja decore en Europe ne 
portera pas une medaille, ou, si flatte de recevoir une marque de 
distinction d'une societe respectable, il la portait, ce seroit d'une 
maniere, peu proper a faire a'ccrediter la valeur de l'ordre. 
Qu'au contraire, en lui donnant une forme nouvelle en particu- 
lier, ce sera ajouter a sa valeur reelle, celle de la rendre recom- 
mendable, en engageant ceux qui en seront decores a en faire 
parade de pair avec les autres ordres militaire, ce qui est le 
plus sur moyen de mettre d'abord de niveau avec eux. 

" Le bald aigle qui est particulier a ce continent et qui se 
distingue a celui des autres climats. par sa tete et sa queue 
blanche, m'a paru meriter de l'attention. 

Je vous envoie deux essais que j'ai faits ; je desire que l'un 
des deux puisse etre adopte au lieu et place de la medaille. 
Dans l'un, je fais l'aigle supportant une etoile, a treize pointes, 
dans le centre de la quelle est renfermee la figure de la medaille 
avec les inscriptions, tant sur la face que sur le revers. On 
pourroit ajouter une legende dans les serres et antour du col 
de l'aigle avec une inscription particuliere, ou bien y transferer 
celle du contour de la medaille. Dans l'autre, j'ai fait l'aigle 
simplement portant sur sa poitrine la figure de la medaille, 
avec une legende dans ses serres et autour du col, laquelle 
lui repasse par derriere le dos pour soutenir le revers. Je 
prefererois le dernier, en ce qu'il n'a rapport a aucun ordre et 
porte avec lui un charactere distinctif et ne seroit pas tort dis- 
pendieux a faire executer. Le premier menee, quoique plus 
complique ne revieneroit pas aussi cher qu'on pourroit le 
penser, toute fois qu'on en chargeroit des personnes capables 



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de l'executer ; ce qui ne peut avoir lieu non plus que rela- 
tivement a la medaille qu' en l'envoyant en Europe ce qui 
n'exigeroit pas beaucoup de terns, et ne seroit pas si dispen- 
dieux, que d'en confier 1'executiOn a des personnes incapa- 
bles. 

" Une rnedaille est une monument qui passe a la posterite, 
et par consequent il est necessaire qu'elle soit portee au degre 
de perfection possible dans le siecle ou elle est frappee. Or, 
bien frapper une medaille est une chose qui demande de 
l'habitude et un bon coin, or il n'y a ici ni balancier propre a 
cette besogne ni gens capables de faire un bon coin, ]e me 
chargerois volontiers de recommender l'execution de la me- 
daille, de l'aigle ou ordre, a gens capables de l'execution a 
Paris. 

" Bien loin que je propose de changer la medaille ovale en un 
aigle en sur lequel seroit empreint cette medaille, je ne 
pretends pas dire qu, ils ne servent pas frapper des medailles. 
Au contraire, voici qu'elle est mon idee a ce sujet. 

" On pourroit faire frapper ,ici des medailles d'argent aux 
frais communs de la societe, et en distribuer une a chacun 
de ses membres comme une titre adapte a la patente de 
parchemin, sur laquelle il sera aussi a propos de graver la 
figure de la medaille, la forme de l'aigle ou de l'etoile, avec sa 
plus grande dimension, detaillant les couleurs, en soignant 
de s'y conformer, laissant la liberte aux chevaliers que s'en 
pourvoyeront a leurs depens, de la faire de tel metal, et aussi 
petite que possible, sans alteration d'aucun des emblemes. II 
ne me paroit pas non plus a propos que les chevaliers 
honoraires portassent l'ordre pareil aux chevaliers de droit.- 
II fraudroit q'on signifat qu'ils portassent la medaille, ou 
l'etoile, ou l'aigle en sautoir, et les chevaliers a la 3me. 
boutoniere. 

" Mon general, ces sont les remarques que je vous prie de 
faire traduire, et de les soummetre a l'opinion generale. Je 
vous serais oblige de me faire savoir quelle issue lettre aura & 
quelle sera la decision q'on en donnera. 

" J'ai, &c. &c. &c. 

L'ENFANT. 

" N. B. La tete et la queue de l'aigle seroient d'argent ou 
emaillees en bianc, le corps et les ailes d'or, la medaille sur 
sa poitrine et sur son dos, emaillee en couleur de meme que 
la legende. On pourroit y ajouter des branches de laurier et 
de chene daus les ailes, pour lors qu'on 'emailleroit en vert; 
l'etoile du medallion seroit pointee en or, ou emaillee bleu et 



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blanc, ceux qui voudroient faire le depense pourraient avoir en 
diamant tout ce qui est blanc. Le ruban seroit moire comme 
celui de tout les autres ordres." 



Philadelphia, ioth June, 1783. 

" My General : 

" Immediately on receiving your letter of the 20th May, 
which I met by accident at the Post Office on the 7th inst., I 
set myself about the plan of the medal. I send you both 
faces of the design, which I have made large, so that you may 
better judge of them. In the execution they can be reduced 
to a convenient size, which, on account of the precision 
required in the design, ought not to be less than a dollar, the 
subject being too complex to admit of its being properly de- 
tailed in a smaller compass. 

" I have not made it oval, agreeably to your desire, as such 
a form is not proper for a medal ; besides, it can be done in 
the execution, if the idea should be persisted in of having the 
order in that form, to which, however, I think any other pre- 
ferable. I also believe and hope that you will be persuaded 
of this, and endeavor to convince the gentlemen of it who 
compose the committee for forming the institution, and to 
whom I beg you to communicate the following observations : 

" A medal, whether round or oval, is considered, in the 
different States of Europe, only as the reward of the laborer' 
and the artist, or as the sign of a manufacturing community 
or religious society ; besides, the abusive custom, prevailing 
particularly in Germany and Italy, of sending to France 
mountebanks, dancers and musicians ornamented in this 
manner, renders it necessary to distinguish this Order by a 
form which shall be peculiar to itself, and which will answer 
the two-fold purpose of honoring those invested with it, and 
making itself respected for its simplicity by such as may be 
in a situation minutely to examine its different parts 

" Not that I suppose that one form or another will change 
the opinion of a Republican people accustomed to think. I 
only say that, in an institution of this sort, the main design should 
be to render it respectable to everybody, and that it is only in 
appealing to the senses that you can engage the attention of 
the common people, who have certain habitual prejudices 
which cannot be destroyed. A gentleman already invested 
with any European order, would be unwilling to carry a 
medal, but, if flattered by receiving a mark of distinction from 
a respectable society he should do it, the manner of it would 



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by no means increase the value of the order. On the con- 
trary, giving a new and particular form will be adding a 
recommendation to its real value, and engage those invested 
with it to wear it in the same manner as their other military 
orders, which is the surest means of putting it at once upon a 
footing with them. 

" The bald eagle, which is peculiar to this continent, and is 
distinguished from those of other climates by its white head 
and tail, appears to me to deserve attention. 

" I send you two essays which I have made, and desire 
one of them may be adopted instead of the medal. In one 
I make the eagle supporting a star with thirteen points, in the 
centre of which is the figure of the medal with its inscription, 
as well in front as on the reverse. A legend might be added 
in the claws, and go round the neck of the eagle, with a par- 
ticular inscription or the contour of the medal transferred 
there. In the other, I have made simply the eagle, support- 
ing on its breast the figure of the medal, with a legend in his 
claws, and about the neck, which passed behind and sustains 
the reverse. I would prefer the latter, as it does not resemble 
any other order, and bears a distinct character ; nor will 
it be expensive in its execution. The first device, although 
more complex, would not be so dear as people might imagine, 
especially if the execution of it should be committed to skill- 
ful persons, which would not be the case any more than with 
'the medal ; but by sending it to Europe, where it would not 
take up a great deal of time, nor be so expensive as to trust 
the execution of it here to workmen not well acquainted with 
the business. 

"A medal is a monument to be transmitted to posterity, 
and, consequently, it is necessary that it be executed to the 
highest degree of perfection in the age in which it is struck. 
Now, to strike a medal well, is a matter that requires practice 
and a good die ; and as there is not here, either a press 
proper for this work, nor people who can make a good die, I 
would willingly undertake to recommend the execution of 
the medal, the eagle, or the order, to such persons in Paris, 
as are capable of executing it to perfection. 

So far from proposing to change the oval medal into an 
eagle, on which should be impressed the medal, I do not pre- 
tend to say medals cannot be made ; on the contrary, my idea 
of the subject is, that silver medals should be struck at the 
common expense of the Society, and distributed, one to each 
member, as an appendage to a diploma of parchment, whereon 
it would be proper to stamp the figure of the medal, the 



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eagle or the star, in its full dimensions, and properly colored, 
enjoining on the members to conform to it, though leaving 
them the liberty, provided it to be at their expense, of having 
it made of such metal and as small as they please, without 
altering any of the emblems. 

" It seems to me by no means proper, that the honorary 
members should wear the order in the same manner as the 
original members; it would be necessary that they should 
wear the medal, the star, or the eagle, round their necks, and 
the original members at the third button-hole. 

" These remarks, I beg you my General, to have translated 
and submitted to the gentlemen concerned. I shall be obliged 
to you to let me know the issue of this letter and their 
decision upon it 

I have, &c, &c, &c, 

L'ENFANT. 

" N. B. — The head and tail of the eagle should be silver, or 
enamelled, in white, the body and wings gold, the medal on its 
breast and back enamelled in the same color as the legend ; 
sprigs of laurel and oak might be added in the wings and en- 
amelled in green ; the star should be pointed in gold, or 
enamelled in blue a^d white ; those who would be at the ex- 
pense, might, instead of white, have diamonds. The ribband, 
as is customary in all other orders, should be wav'd." 

Resolved, That the thanks of this convention be transmitted 
by the President, to Major L'Enfant, for his care and ingenuity 
in preparing the aforementioned designs, and that he be ac- 
quainted that they cheerfully embrace his offer of assistance, 
and request a continuance of his attention in carrying the de- 
signs into execution, for which purpose the President is de- 
sired to correspond with him. 

Resolved, That his Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief, be 
requested to officiate as President-General until the first general 
meeting, to be held in May next. 

That a Treasurer-General and a Secretary-General be bal- 
lotted for, to officiate in like manner. 

The ballots being taken, Major-General M'Dougall was 
elected Treasurer-General, and Major-General Knox, Secreta- 
ry-General, who are hereby requested to accept said ap- 
pointments. 

Resolved, That all the proceedings of this Convention, in- 
cluding the institution of the Society, be recorded (from the 
original papers in his possession) by Captain Shaw, who, at 
2 



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the first meeting, was requested to act as Secretary, and that 
the same signed by the President and Secretary, together 
with the original papers, be given into the hands of Major- 
General Knox, Secretary-General to the Society ; and that 
Captain North, Aid de-Camp to the Baron de Steuben, and 
acting Secretary to him as President, sign the said records. 

The dissolution of a very considerable part of the army, 
since the last meeting of this Convention, having rendered the 
attendance for some of its members impracticable, and the 
necessity of some temporary arrangement, previous to the first 
meeting of the General Society, being so strikingly obvious, 
the Convention found itself constrained to make those before 
mentioned, which they have done with the utmost diffidence 
of themselves, and relying entirely on the candor of their con- 
stituents to make allowance for the measure. The principal 
objects of this appointment being thus accomplished, the 
members of this Convention think fit to dissolve the same, 
and it is hereby dissolved accordingly. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



HELD IN THE 



CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, I,N MAY, 1800. 



Tuesday, May 6, 1800. 

It was moved by Mr. Bingham, and seconded by General 
Bloomfield, 

That a respectful testimonial to the memory of General 
Washington, be entered on the records of the General Society 
of <~he Cincinnati, which was unanimously agreed to, 

And Mr. Bingham, Major Pinckney, and General Dayton, 
were appointed a committee to prepare and report the same. 



Wednesday, May 7, 1800. 

Mr. Bingham, from the committee appointed for that pur- 
pose, reported the following testimonial of respect to the 
memory of General Washington, which was twice read, unani- 
mously agreed to, and ordered to be entered on the records of 
the Society, as the first act of the present general meeting 
after its organization. 

Under the most profound impression of veneration and 
affection, the Society of the Cincinnati at a general meeting, 
are called upon to express the mournful tribute of their sor- 
row at that awful dispensation of Providence, which has 
recently removed from their councils, the much revered and 
lamented President-General. 

The arduous though successful struggle which terminated 
in establishing the liberties of our country, and in which they 



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fought under his banner, and shared with him the dangers and 
toils of the field, attached him to this Society by ties of the 
most intimate and endearing nature. His valor and prudence 
seemed to control the events of war, led the American Armies 
to victory, and achieved the independence of their country. 
Whilst mingling their tears with those of their fellow-citizens, 
they are naturally impelled to pour out the effusions of a deep 
regret, for the irreparable loss which they have sustained. 

But it is not only in their relationship to this illustrious 
character, as soldiers, that the Society of the Cincinnati have 
cause to deplore his loss. 

When the storm of war had ceased to rage, and the bless- 
ings of peace had been restored, their country was suffering 
under the weakness of a confederation which threatened the 
existence of that union which their joint efforts in arms had 
so essentially contributed to establish. 

With his auspicious co operation a constitution was formed, 
calculated, by its wisdom and energy, to redeem us from 
that prostrate state to which we had been reduced, and to 
restore that reputation which our country had lost from the 
imbecility of the old syscem. The administration of the 
government was committed to his care, and his country will 
ever hold in grateful remembrance the inflexible virtue and 
fortitude with which he conducted its affairs, and saved it 
from the effects of domestic faction and foreign intrigue. 

After a second retirement from the active scenes of public 
life, in which his merits as a statesman rivalled his fame as a 
soldier, his country, at the approach of danger, again required 
his services. The crisis was important, and the situation 
delicate. A nation which had mingled its blood with ours 
in the defence of our liberties, had now assumed a hostile 
appearance. A war from this unexpected quarter threatened 
the peace of our country. 

Washington, who never hesitated when urged by a sense of 
duty, obeyed the call of the Government. He again aban- 
doned his beloved retirement, hazarded a reputation, consum- 
mate in every point of view, and received the command of 
the armies. His military companions, who frequently wit- 
nessed the magnanimity of his conduct in seasons of ad- 
versity, as well as of triumph, felt the full force of their 
country's appeal to arms, whilst Washington was their 
leader. 

In this momentuous crisis of our affairs, by the inscrutable 
decrees of Heaven, he was snatched from America and the 
world. 



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Under this pressure of calamity, which more peculiarly 
operates upon the sensibilities of this Society, their only con- 
solation is derived from the animating reflection that, although 
he is summoned to the enjoyment of the happy destinies of 
a future state, thebright example of his virtues and talents will 
still survive, and the inheritance of his name prove a future 
incentive to heroes and legislators who will strive to emulate 
his fame, and merit the glory he has acquired. 



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OFFICERS 

Of the General Society of the Cincinnati, elected at 
the First Meeting of Delegates from the several 
State Societies, held at Philadelphia, in May, 1784: 



His Exc'y Gen. G. WASHINGTON . . . Prcs.-Gen. 
Maj.-Gen. HORATIO GATES ..... Vicc-Pres.-Gen. 

Maj.-Gen. HENRY KNOX Secy-Gen. 

Brig.-Gen. O. H. WILLIAMS Asst. Secy-Gen. 



OFFICERS 

Elected at an Adjourned Meeting held at Philadelphia, 
in May, 1800, after, the demise of His Excellency Gen. 
Geo. 'Washington : 

Maj.-Gen. ALEXANDER HAMILTON . Prcs-Gen. 



Maj-Gen. C. C. PINCKNEY Vice-Pres.-Gen. 

Maj. WILLIAM JACKSON Sec'y-Gen. 

Doctor NATHAN DORSEY Asst. Sec'y-Gen. 

Brig-Gen. W. M'PHERSON Treas.-Gen. 



OFFICERS 

Elected at the last Triennial Meeting held at Phila- 
delphia, in May, 1805, after the demise of Maj-Gen. 
Alexander Hamilton: 



Maj.-Gen. C. C. PINCKNEY ...... Prcs.-Gen. 

Maj.-Gen. HENRY KNOX Vicc-Pres.-Gen. 

Maj. WILLIAM JACKSON Sec.-Gcn. 

Maj. D. BELL Asst. Secy-Gen. 

Brig.-Gen. W. M'PHERSON ...... Treas.-Gen 



EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS 



OF THE 

€tiiitii Sitlgigi si lli €tatailb 

At a Quarterly Meeting, held on Monday, the 14.TH day 
of October, 1805. 

Resolved, unanimously, That this Society do highly approve 
of the Eulogy on the character of the late Major-General 
Moultrie, voluntarily presented by a member, through the 
Secretary, and read before them, and that the same be entered 
on the Journals as a mark of respect due from this Society, 
to their late venerable President. 

EULOGY. 

" The twenty-seventh of September, one thousand eight 
hundred and five, will long be remembered with interest by 
every virtuous citizen of South Carolina. On that day, deeply 
regretted by every individual who had sense to appreciate, 
and gratitude to acknowledge the pre-eminence of his patriot 
virtues, died in the seventy-fifth year of his age, the venerable 
Major-General William Moultrie, who by uniform suffrage, 
had presided over this Society from its first institution. As a 
Revolutionary character, his steadiness in principle, his valor 
in the field, were particularly conspicuous. As a soldier, it 
was his fortune to check with an effect that paralyzed every 
subsequent exertion, the first efforts of a powerful and invete- 
rate foe, for the subjugation of his country. Bold as Leonidas 
he defended the strait committed to his charge, against a su- 
periority of force, that had been deemed irresistable, and more 
fortunate than the Spartan hero, lived in honorable old age 
under the shades of his laurels, to share with a grateful nation 
the liberty his successful exertion had so happily contributed 
to establish. As a patriot, it was equally his glory, disdain- 
fully to reject the bribes of a nation, who repeatedly 
foiled by his valor, hoped with better success to corrupt his 
integrity, and like another Fabricius, to show to the admiring 



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world, how insignificant the power of gold, to shake the prin- 
ciples of a heart, warmed with the genuine glow of heaven- 
born liberty. In private life, his disposition was frank, liberal, 
sincere; his manners simple and conciliating. Duplicity and 
disguise, were odious to a nature fixed on the firmest basis of 
candor and truth. As a husband, father, master, he was 
kind, gentle, most indulgent ; in short, as has been said of a 
great statesman and distinguished patriot, he was everything 
to his family, but what he gave up to his country. 

"When in future ages, men shall seek examples of distin- 
guished worth and excellence, fame with delight shall tell the 
unshaken faith, and gallant deeds of MOULTRIE." 

" While as brother soldiers we offer this sincere though in- 
adequate tribute of respect to his memory, it is with pleasure 
we reflect, that the artillery, cavalry, and several volunteer 
corps of the city, together with a considerable concourse of 
the most respectable and patriotic of our citizens, attended his 
body to the grave, testifying their high respect for his virtues, 
and unfeigned sorrow, for the event which deprived his coun- 
try of one of its most distinguished and estimable public char- 
acters." 



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OFFICERS 

Of the South Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, Elect- 
ed at their First Meeting at Charleston, on the 
29TH August, 1783 : 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE 
Brig-Gen. ISAAC HUGER . . . 
Major THOMAS PINCKNEY . . 
Capt. CHARLES LINING .... 
Lieut. JAMES KENNEDY .... 
Lieut. SAMUEL BEEKMAN . . 
JOHN SANFORD DART, Eso., . 



. . President. 

. . Vice-President. 

. . Secretary. 

. . Treasiirer. 

. . Asst. Trcas. 

' \ Stezvards. 



Standing Committee Appointed on 6th. October, 1783: 

Colonel CHARLES C. PINCKNEY, 
Col. Bernard Beekman, Capt. Felix Warley, 

Lieut-Col. W. Washington, Lieut. Charles Brown, 
Major Robert Forsyth, Doctor David Oliphant. 



RULES AND BY-LAWS 



OF THE 



OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 



Appointed on the 4TH July, 1848, Under its New Organi- 
zation, Being now Composed Entirely of Descendants 
of the Revolutionary Army of the United States. 



I. 

The officers comprising the State Society of the Cincinnati 
of South Carolina, having assembled on the twenty-ninth day 
of August, and on the thirteenth day of September, in the year 
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and maturely 
considered the propositions and rules transmitted to Major- 
General Moultrie, by Majors-General Heath and Steuben, re- 

spectivelv, and dated on the twentieth day of May, and 

day of June, of the same year, acceded to them with this 
reservation, that if any of the said propositions or rules should, 
by any construction, be held obligatory on the Society to 
interfere in any manner whatsoever, with the civil polity of 
their own, or any other of the United States, or of the United 
States in General, the members thereof will not hold them- 
selves in any respect bound by them, prizing too highly the 
civil liberties of their country, and their Society as citizens, to 
consent that a military association should dictate to the civil 
authority. 

II. 

The Society are desirous to maintain the benevolent and 
charitable principles of the original institution, and for that 
purpose adopt this Rule : 

That whenever a member, h'is widow or descendants, shall 
need the aid of the Society, application shall be made in the 



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first place, to the Standing Committee, who shall examine into 
the merits thereof, and report the facts to the Society, together 
wtth their opinion, and such relief may be granted as the So- 
ciety shall think fit. 

III. 

There shall be four general meetings of the Society in a 
year, viz : on the fourth day of July, which shall be considered 
as the annniversary of the Society, when the members shall 
dine together, gratefully commemorating it as the day of the 
Declaration of the Independence of the United States, and the 
commencement of the political existence of their citizens as a 
free people; on the 22d of February, memorably distin- 
guished as the birthday of Washington, the father of his 
country, when the members shall also dine together ; on the 
igth of April, being the anniversary of the battle of Lexing- 
ton, so honorable to the first effort? of the American arms; 
and on the 19th day of October, when the capture of Corn- 
wallis crowned them with the most brilliant success ; and 
should any of them fall on Sunday, then the meeting shall be 
celebrated on the day following. And there shall be one 
special meeting on the evening of the third day of July, to 
prepare for the celebration of the next day, and to transact 
ordinary business, but should the third fall on Sunday, then 
.the meeting shall be held on the second. 

IV. 

At every Anniversary each member shall contribute six 
dollars towards the funds of the Society ; every member may 
bring or permit his own son or sons, or the son or sons of a 
deceased member, under the age of twenty-one years, to par- 
take of the Anniversary dinner ; Provided, that for each and 
every one of them over eighteen years, he shall pay the 
Treasurer the sum of two dollars; And, provided, also, that 
any member absent for a year or more at a time, in the service 
of the United States, or of South Carolina, shall not be charged 
for contribution during their absence. Members shall be no- 
tified annually by the Treasurer, of the amount of their arrears. 
Should any member owe two years arrears, he shall be spe- 
cially notified thereof, and should he be three years in arrears 
his name may be dropped from the list of members, a major- 
ity of at least three fourths of those present at a regular 
general meeting voting against him. 



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V. 

At every Anniversary there shall be chosen a President, 
Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, two Stewards, and 
two or more Delegates to represent the Society in the General 
Society ; and in case of the death, resignation or removal of 
any of the above officers, another person or persons shall, at 
the next ensuing general meeting, be chosen to supply his or 
their place for the remaining part of the year. If at any 
meeting, both the President and Vice-President should be ab- 
sent, the members present may choose a Chairman to preside 
and proceed to transact the business of the Society. 

VI. 

All officers, delegates and committees of the Society, shall 
continue vested with their respective authorities until others 
are appointed in their places. 

VII. 

No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the 
Society, unless nine of the members are present, who shall 
constitute a quorum. 

VIII. 

All questions proposed in the Society, shall be determined 
by a majority of the members present, voting viva voce ; but 
the vote shall be taken by ballot should any three members 
demand it. 

IX. 

The Society shall be opened as soon as the President shall 
have taken the chair, and the minutes of the preceding 
meeting read, and considered in session till the President shall 
have declared the business closed. 

X. 

The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or in 
the absence of both, the chairman of the Standing Committee 
shall have power to call an extra meeting whenever it is his 
opinion that the affairs of the Society require it, giving such 
public notice as he shall deem necessary. 



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XI. 

The President at each Anniversary, shall appoint a Standing 
Committee, to consist of seven members, besides the officers 
of the Society ; and all members who choose to attend the 
meeting thereof, shall have a right to debate and vote on any 
question laid before them for discussion. 

XII. 

It shall be the business of the Standing Committee to pro- 
pose at the general meetings, any matter which they may 
consider as conducive to the benefit and advantage of the 
Society, to afford temporary relief to all such persons as by 
the rules of the Society are entitled to it, and transact all 
such business as cannot be postponed till the general meeting. 

XIII. 

The Secretary shall keep minutes of all the proceedings of 
the Society, and record all rules and by-laws in a book to be 
particularly kept for that purpose; he shall likewise keep all 
letters to and copies of letters from the Society; taking care 
that every transaction of the Society, and every occurrence 
relating to it, as far as comes to his knowledge, be faithfully 
registered and deposited in the archives. 

XIV. 

The Treasurer shall keep account of all moneys received 
or disbursed on account of the Society. 

XV. 

All titles, stocks, bonds, and other securities for moneys, 
shall be taken in the corporate name of the Society and made 
payable to the "Society of Cincinnati of the State of South 
Carolina;" no moneys belonging to the Society shall be let out 
at interest, by the Treasurer, but with the consent of the 
Standing Committee, nor lent directly or indirectly to a 
member of the Society; nor shall any member be admitted 
to become surety for the moneys lent. 

XVI. 

The book and accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited 
and examined by the Standing Committee, or a Special Com- 
mittee, who shall, on every anniversary, lay the same before 
the Society. 



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XVII. 

That all distinction between honorary and regular members 
be, and the same is hereby, abolished. All lineal male de- 
scendants of such persons as now are, have been, or may 
hereafter become members of the Society, shall be eligible as 
members thereof : Provided, that whenever there shall be no 
lineal descendants, the collateral males shall be entitled ; and 
provided, also, that the lineal descendants of a deceased mem- 
ber by a daughter shall be entitled in preference over collat- 
eral male branches. 

XVIII. 

No person shall be elected a member of this Society except 
by ballot at a regular meeting by a majority of at least three- 
fourths of the members present ; no person shall be balloted 
for who has not been proposed at a previous regular general 
meeting of the Society, and the most sacred regard to secrecy 
shall be observed by the members on the occasion, that if the 
candidate should prove unsuccessful, the knowledge of his 
misfortune shall never transpire. 

XIX. 

If any members of the Society should die in such indigent 
circumstances' that the expenses of his funeral cannot be pro- 
perly defrayed by his estate, the same shall be disbursed by 
the Treasurer out of the funds of the Society. 

XX. 

No Rule or By-Law of this Society shall be altered, nor 
shall any new Rule or By-Law be made, until the same has 
been proposed at one general meeting, and approved of and 
agreed to at another. 

XXI, 

No question of a political or religious character shall be 
discussed at any meeting of the Society. 



LIST OF THE MEMBERS 



Still Bw®Bm 



5* w ■ 



siitL 



FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE INSTITUTION; THE BANK THEY HELD AT THE EX- 
PIRATION OF THE WAR, AND THE STATE OR CORPS TO WHICH THEY WERE SEVERALLY 
ATTACHED. 



NAMES. 



RANK. 



STATE 



CORPS. 



Remarks. 



William Moultrie | Major -General .. 

Brig. -General .... 

ditto 

Colonel 

ditto 

ditto 

Lt.-Col Comd't. 

ditto 
Lieut. -Colonel ... 
ditto .. . 
ditto 
ditto 

Major 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

Captain 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto !.. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

dicto 

ditto ... 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto , 

ditto 



Isaac Huger. 

Mordecai Gist 

Charles C. Pinckney. 

Barnard Beekman 

Antho. W. White.. . 

Francis Marion 

Peter Horry 

John F. Grimke 

William Scott 

Wm. Washington.... 

Lewis Morris 

Thomas Pinckney.... 

Ephraim Mitchell 

John Vanderhorst 

Isaac Harleston '.. 

Samuel Taylor 

Robert Forsyth 

James Hamilton... — 

Elnathan Haskill 

Felix Warley 

Joseph Warley 

Simeon Theus 

Thomas Shubrick 

James Mitchell 

Richard B. Baker 

Adrien Proveaux , 

William Hext 

Charles Lining 

Harman Davis , 

Samuel Warren , 

Albert Roux 

Levacher 

John Martin 

Thomas Gadsden 

Thomas Hall 

John C. Smith , 

Field Farrar 

John Wickley 

John Williamson 



South Carolina. 

ditto 

Maryland 

South Carolina 

ditto 
ist Reg. L. D. 
South Carolina.. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
3d Reg. L. D... 

New York 

South Carolina.. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

Virginia 

Pennsylvania ... 
Massachusetts...' 
South Carolina . 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 



Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead 

Dead. 



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LIST OF MEMBERS.— Continued. 







STATE 




NAMES. 


RANK. 


OR 


Remarks. 






CORPS. 





George Turner 

John Hart 

Peter Gray 

George Warley .... 

Daniel Mazyck 

John Buchanan .... 
Uriah Goodwyn.... 
Richard B. Roberts 
Thomas B. Bowen . 

Enos Reeves 

John Markland.... 

Daniel McLane 

Benjamin Carter 

Thomas Turner 

George Melven 

Patrick Carnes 

Edm. G. Coleman 
Nath'l Pendleton... 
Arc'd. McCalester. 

Christian Senf. 

Jacob Schreiber 

William Tate 

Henry Moore 

John Shivers Budd. 
Constant Freeman.. 

John Goodwyn 

John Hamilton , 

John Knap 

James Legare , 

Thomas C. Russell. 

Charles Brown 

Daniel D'Oyley 

James Kennedy 

William Ward , 

Samuel Beekman ., 

Thomas Dunbar 

John Peter Ward... 

George Ogier 

Stephen Mazyck . .. 

James Milligan 

William Murren . .. 

George Reid 

Adam Gilchrist 

James Johnston 

Wm. Thompson 

Jonas Addoms 

Thomas Hunt 

Joseph Brevard 

John Middleton .... 
Alexander Garden .. 
A. C. G Elholm .. 

Henry C. Flagg 

Frederick Sunn 

William Neufville .. 
Joseph Blyth 



Captain 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

eiitto 

ditto 

Captain Lieut. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
Lieutenant .... 
ditto .... 
ditto 

ditto .... 
ditto 

ditto .... 

ditto 

ditto 
ditto 

ditto .... 

ditto 

ditto .... 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto .... 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

Cornet 

ditto 

ditto 

Reg'l. Surgeon 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 



South Carolina.. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

Pennsylvania 

ditto 
ditto 

New York 

North Carolina. 
Massachusetts... 

Georgia 

Les's Legion 

Connecticut 

Virginia 

Maryland 

Engineers 

ditto 

South Carolina.. 

ditto 

ditto , 

Massachusetts.. . 
South Carolina.. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto , 

Pennsylvania — 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto* 

ditto 

ditto , 

New York 

ditto 

North Carolina. 

Lee's Legion 

ditto 

Pulaskie's Leg- 
South Carolina., 
ditto 

ditto , 

North Carolina. 



33 



LIST OF MEMBERS.— Continued. 



NAMES. 



RANK. 



STATE 

OR 

CORPS. 



Remarks. 



Tho. H. McCalla. .. 
James E. B. Finley. 
Benjamin L. Perry.. 
Robert Wharry 



Reg'l. Surgeon.. 

ditto 

ditto 
Reg. Sur. Mate 



4th Reg L. D. 
Massachusetts. 
Pennsylvania... 
ditto 



Stephen Drayton. 
John Mitchell.... 
John S Dart 



GENERAL STAFF. 

D. Q. M. Gen j South Carolina.. 

ditto Pennsylvania.... 

D. P. M. Gen 'South Carolina. 

BRIGADE STAFF. 

Andrew D'Ellient Brigade Major 'South Carolina.. 

Henry Purcell Brigade Chaplain ditto 

John Hurt | ditto (Virginia , 

GENERAL HOSPITAL. 



David Oliphant .... 

Peter Fayssoux 

Thos. T. Tucker... 

William Read 

John Witherspoon. 

John Lochman 

Joseph H Ramsay. 

Wm. S. Stevens 

Robert Smith 



Director 

Ph. and Surgeon. 

ditto 

ditto 

Surgeon 

Jun. Surgeon 

ditto 

ditto 
Hos. Chaplain . ., 



Southern Army. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
Main Army 
Southern Army. 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



MEMBERS 



ADMITTED AS THE LINEAL DESCENDANTS, AND COLLATERAL BRANCHES OF DECEASED 
MEMBERS, AND OF OFFICERS WHO DIED DURING THE WAR. 



NAMES. 




Remarks. 



Isaac Motte Dart.. 

William A. Moultrie 

Lieut. Christian Gadsden 

John Middleton 

Daniel E. Huger 

Gen. A. Vanderhorst.... 

John Martin 

Dr. James Fayssoux 

Robert Smith 

Daniel L. Reeves 

Robert Marion 

William Cattell 

Henry W. DeSaussure... 

Henry Laurens 

Felix B. Warley 

Thomas Shubrick, Jun.. 
James Gilchrist 

3 



13th January, 1800 

4th fuly, 1806 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

13th October, 1806 
12th January, 1807 

3d July, 1807 

ditto 

4th July, 1807 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

4th July, 1808 

ditto 

ditto 



Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 
Dead. 



34 

HONORARY MEMBERS. 



NAMES. 



WHEN ADMITTED. 



William Was-hington, Jun 

Lewis Morris, Jun 

John Grimke , 

Thomas Pinckney, Jun.. 

Francis K. Huger 

A. Vanderhorst, Jun 

John Vanderhorst 

Richard B. Baker, Jun 

Dr. Daniel D'Oyley 

Alexander Garden 

Lionel H. Kennedy , 

Thomas S. Grimke 



4th July, 1807 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 

ditto 
4th July, 1808 

ditto 



35 



LIST OF MEMBERS 



ADMITTED SINCE JULY, l8o8. 



States Gist 

Alexander Garden , 

George Evans 

William Simmons 

William Warley 

James Hardy (of New York). 

William Budd 

J. Harleston Read 

W. J. Grayson , — 

E. B. Lining 

H. A. DeSaussure 

C. R. Greene 

George B. Reid 

William Cattell 

William Mason Smith 

Daniel D'Oyley, Jr 

Charles Lee Edwards 

William Hall 

JEneas S. Reeves 

Richard Shubrick 

Henry Purcell 

Robert B. Gilchrist 

William Drayton 

C. Cotesworth Pinckney, Jr... 

Charles T. Brown 

Isaac Motte Campbell 

Simeon Theus, Jr 

Charles W. D'Oyley 

S. B. Rush Finley 

James Hamilton 

Charles Warley 

Geo. W. Egleston 

John S. Cogdell 

Richard S. Pinckney 

E H. Purcell 

Paul Trapier 

Aaron C. Smith 

Joseph H. Ramsay 

Charles Lining 

Ebenezer Flagg 

William Moultrie Reid 

Francis Y. Legare 

Allard H. Belin 

William B. Shubrick 

Jacob Warley , 

J. Bassnett Legare.... 

Richard W. Cogdell 

John H. Tucker 

Thomas Lining 

Edward R. Pinckney 

William B. Ioor , 

R. H. Lining 

Barnard S. Elliott 

W. Moultrie Brailsford 



....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead 

... .Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

... Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

.. .Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

...Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

. ..Dead. 

....Dead. 

....Dead. 

...Dead. 

....Dead. 



Charles T Haskell ... 

Paul Trapier 

William Washington. 
Edward R. Laurens... 

William Patterson 

E. Vanderhorst 

Robert Q. Pinckney.. 

John A. Ramsay 

W. P. Finley 

Henry C. Flagg 

H. W. Peronneau 

C. A. DeSaussure .... 
William C. Fayssoux 

J. E. B. Finley 

Gibbs L. Elliott 

Harris Simons 



Dead. 

Dead. 

.Resigned. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

■ Resigned. 

Dead. 

, Dead 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

, Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 



Geo. W. Haig 

Hopson Pinckney 

W. W. Ancrum 

James Simons 

T. Pinckney Lowndes 
J. Harleston Reid, Jr.. 

J. Hamilton, Jr 

Evan Edwards 

Philip R Neyle 

William G. Ramsay. .., 

W. J. Lesesne 

Isaac Lesesne 

Charles W. Simons 

John Greaton 

Alexander R. Haig , 

Thomas P. Middleton 

John B Laurens 

John B. Irving 

Maham Haig 

John Laurens 

John J. Edwards , 

John L. Manning 

Louis D. DeSaussure .. 

E. B. Lining, Jr 

A. S. Johnston .. 

Charles Lee Edwards.... 
William E. Haskell .... 
Daniel H. Hamilton.... 

H. W. DeSaussure 

W. G. DeSaussure 

J. Withers Read 

Thomas Fayssoux 

Richard Manning 

Brown Manning 

William H. Peronneau. 
William S. Edwards... 

Emilius Irving 

Thomas R. Egleston..., 



.Resigned. 

Dead. 

..... Dead. 
.Resigned. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 

Dead. 



.Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 
. Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 



.Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 



.Resigned. 



.Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 



.Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 



.Dead. 
.Dead. 
.Dead. 



36 

LIST OF MEMBERS— Continued. 



W. M. Brailsford 

Chas. T. Haskell 

Paul Trapier 

Wm. Washington 

Edw. R. Laurens 

Wm. Patterson 

E. Vander Horst 

Robt. Pinckney... 

John A. Ramsay 

Wm. P. Finley 

Henry C. Flagg 

H. W. Perronneau.... 

C. A. DeSaussure 

Wm. C Fayssoux 

J. E. B. Finley 

Gibbes L. Elliott 

Harris Simons 

Geo. W. Haig 

Hopson Pinckney 

W. W. Ancrum 

James Simons 

T. P. Lowndes 

J. Harleston Read 

J. Hamilton. Jr 

Evan Edwards 

Philip R. Neyle 

Wm. G. Ramsay 

Wm. J. Lesesne 

Iaaac Lesesne 

Chas. W. Simons 

John Greaton 

Alex. R. Haig 

Thos. P. Middleton.. 
Chas. Lee Edwards... 

Wm. E. Haskell 

Dan'l H. Hamilton.. 
H. W. DeSaussure.... 
W. G. DeSaussure... 

J. Withers Read 

Thos. Fayssoux 

John Laurens 

John J. Edwards 

John L. Manning 

Louis D. DeSaussure.. 

E. B. Lining 

A. Sidney Johnston.. 

Richard I. Manning.. 

Brown Manning 

Wm. H. Perronneau. 

Wm. S. Edwards 

A. Aemilius Irving. . 

Thos. R. Egleston 

R. C. Gilchrist 

Thos. F. Drayton 

F. M. Edwards 



4 J"iy, 
4 July, 

3 July, 

4 July, 

5 July, 
4 July, 

2 July, 

3 J u iy> 

19 Oct., 

4 July, 
4 July, 

3 July, 

4 July, 

3 July, 

30 Nov., 

4 July, 
4 July, 
4 July, 
4 July, 
4 July, 

3 J u iy, 

, 2 J ul y, 

!i9 Oct., 
1 19 Oct., 
I 2 J^., 

4 July, 
2 Jan., 
2 Jan., 
19 Oct., 



19 April, 

4 July, 
3 July, 

19 Oct., 
19 Oct.t 

3 July, 

4 July, 

3 July, 

23 Feb , 

4 July,. 
23 Feb., 

4 July, 
19 Oct., 
19 April, 

3 July, 

3 July, 

19 Oct , 
19 Oct., 

4 July, 
4 July, 
4 July, 

4 July, 

5 July, 



1825 
1827 
1818 
1831 
1830 
1820 
1831 
1830 
1829 
1826 
1826 
1 8 29 
1827 
1830 

1833 
1836 
1836 
1836 
1836 
1836 
1837 

i837 
i837 
1837 



1841 
1841 
1840 



841 
846 
844 
841 

840 



843 
*45l 



846 
846 
846 
846 



850 
848 
852 



Dead 
Resigned 
Resigned 

Dead 

Dead 
Resigned 

Dead 

Dead 

Dead 
Resigned 

Dead 
Resigned 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 

Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 

Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Resigned 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 



Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 



Resigned 
Dead 

Dead 

Resigned 
Dead 
Dead 

Resigned 

Dead 



Grand-father, General Moultrie. 
Father, Major E. Haskell. 
Father, Paul Trapier. 
Father, Colonel W. Washington. 
Father, Henry Laurens. 

Father, Gen,l A. Vander Horst. 
Colonel Shubrick. 
Collateral, Dr. J. Ramsay. 
Father, Dr. Finley. 
Father, Dr. Flagg. 

Father, Chancellor DeSaussure. 
Father. 

Father, J. E. B. Finley. 
Grand-father, Colonel B. Elliott. 
Father, Major James Simons. 
Father, Dr. Maham Haig. 
Colonel Shubrick. 
General W, Washington. 
Father, Major James Simons. 
Grand-father, Gen. T. Pinckney. 
Father, J. H. Read, Sr. 
Father, Major J. Hamilton. 
Father, Dr. C. L. Edwards. 
Uncle, Captain S. Neyle. 
Collateral, Dr. J. Ramsay. 
IGrand-uncle, T Lesesne. 
Grand-uncle, Col. G. Norwark. 
Father, Major James Simons. 



Father, Colonel I Middleton. 
Father, Dr. C. L. Edwards. 
Father, Major E. Haskell. 
Father, James Hamilton. 
Father, H. A. DeSaussure. 
Father, H. A. DeSaussure. 
Father, J. H. Read, Sr. 
Father, James Fayssoux, 
Father, J. B Laurens. 
Father, C. L. Edwards. 
Grand father, Capt. L. Manning. 
Father, H. A DeSaussure. 
Grand-father, Lining. 
Father, P. Johnston, (from the 

Cincinnati of Virginia). 
Grand-father, Capt. L. Manning. 
Grand-father, Capt. L. Manning. 
Father, H W. Perronneau. 
Futher, Dr. C. L. Edwards. 
Father, John B. Irving. 
Father, G. W. Egleston. 
Father, Hon. R. B. Gilchrist. 
Father, Colonel Drayton. 
I Father, Dr. C. L. Edwards. 



37 

LIST OF MEMBERS— Continued. 



Henry Laurens 

Geo. W. Flagg 

Geo. Reid , 

Chas. Lining 

W. W. Anderson 



Beaufort T. Watts ... 
R. Q__ Pinckney, Jr. 

B. G. Pinckney 

Ogden Hammond .... 



J. Rhett Motte 

H. M Haig 

Jno. B. DeSaussure.. 
David Ramsay 



4 July, 
4 July, 

3 J u iy, 

4 J u ' v , 

4 July, 

4 July, 
4 July, 

4 July, 
4 July, 



4 July, 
4 July, 

4 July, 



C. Gadsden Hall 19 Oct., 

T. Pinckney Huger... 4 July, 
J.E. McP. Washington 4 July, 

Chas. E. B. Flagg 4 July, 

Arthur P. Lining 5 July, 

Felix Warley 5 July, 

S. Wragg Simons 5 July, 

B. H. Read 4 Feb., 

H. Rolando 22 Feb., 

Arthur P. Hayne 4 July, 

Wm. Lowndes 5 July, 

Wm. M. Ramsay 19 Oct., 

Daniel Tucker 19 Oct., 

W. L. Campbell 19 Oct., 

T. P Lowndes | 4 ]uly, 

W. W. Finley 4 July, 

H. W. DeSaussure 4 July, 

Maham Haig 23 Feb , 

D. E Huger 

F. K Huger 3 July, 

Joshua Ward 1 Nov., 

Viscount de Leaumont 4 July, 
Robert deLeaumont... 18 Oct., 

James Simons, Jr 4 July, 

Rich. J. Manning, Jr. 4 fuly, 
S. Gourdin Pinckney.. 19 Oct., 
Dr. H W. DeSaussure| 19 Oct., 
Alex. B. DeSaussure... 119 Oct. 

J. Harleston Read 4 July, 

Dr. Manning Simons.. 4 July, 

Alex R. Haig 1 19 April, 

W. W. Simons I 4 July, 

S. C. Smith 119 Oct., 

19 Oct., 
19 April, 
19 April, 
19 April, 

July, 



Simeon Theus 
Wm. P. DeSaussure... 

James S. Simons. 

C. L. Simons 



Dubose Egleston I 4 



8551 Dead 
855! 

856! Dead 



8*54 
851 
851 
850 



847 
851 

8S3 



852 

857 
828 
857 
8c8 



830 



Resigned 
Dead 

Dead 



Dead 



Dead 

Dead 
Dead 



Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 



8 5 3 1 Dead 
854! Dead 
8S9 1 
859 
859 
859 

859 
859 
859 



Dead 



Dead 
Dead 
Dead 
Dead 



825 
84S 
861 
861 
866 
866 

866! Resigned 



867 



868 
868 
869 
S69 
870 
870 



Grand-father, Henry Laurens. 

Father, H. C. Flagg. 

Father, Geo. B. Reid. 

j Father, E. B. Lining. 

Father, R. Anderson, (from the 
Cincinnati of Maryland). 

Uncle, Capt. R. Roland. 

Father, R Q Pinckney. 

Father, R. Q. Pinckney. 

Father, Captain Hammond, (from 
Cincinnati of New York, Capt. 
?d Con. Artillery). 

Uncle, Colonel Charles Motte. 

Father, H. M. Haig. 

Father, H. A. DeSaussure. 

Great-grand-uncle, Colonel Ram- 
say, ^from Cincinnati of Mary- 
land, Colonel Con. Artillery). 

Father, Dr. Wm. Hall. 

Father, Colonel F. K. Huger. 

Father, Wm. Washington. 

Father, E. Flagg. 

Father. 

Father 

Father, Harris Simons. 
Father, J. H. Read. 
Captain A. Proveaux. 
Com'y, Alex. Garden. 
Father, T. P Lowndes. 
Father, Dr. Ramsay. 
Father, John H Tucker. 
Father, Dr. J. M Campbell. 
Father, T. P. Lowndes. 
Father, J. E. B. Finley. 
Father, C. A. DeSaussure. 
Father, Dr. Geo. Haig. 
Father, Judge Huger. 

W. Ward. 
Army of France. 
Father, Chevalier de Leaumont. 
Father, Hon. James Simons. 
Father, Hon. John L. Manning. 
Father, Dr. Hopson Pinckney. 
Father, Dr. H. W. DeSaussure. 
Father, Dr. H. W. DeSaussure. 
Father, J. Harleston Read. 
Father, Hon. James Simons. 
Father, Mr. Alex. R. Haig. 
Father, Harris Simons. 
Father, Aaron C. Smith. 
Father, Major Simeon Theus. 
Father, Dr H. W. DeSaussure. 
Father, Harris Simons. 
Father, Herris Simons. 
I Father, G. R. Egleston. 



38 

LIST OF MEMBERS— Continued. 



Dr. James Purcell 

W. C. Finley 

Chas. L. Edwards 

Henry A. DeSaussure. 
Henry G. Pinckney... 

H. Read Simons 

John B Reeves 

D. E. Huger Smith... 
Henry A. M. Smith.. 

Thomas Reeves 

Wade Hampton 

E. D. McCullough 

Arnoldus Vanderhorst. 
James P. DeSaussure . 
W. G. DeSaussure, Jr. 

R. C. Gilchrist 

Leighton Finley 

Cleland K. Huger 

Richard H. Anderson. 

Robert Pinckney 

Dr. P. G DeSaussure. 

Henry R. Laurens 

Rev. C. C. Pinckney. 
McBrewton Hamilton 

Benj H. Read 

Thos. Pinckney 

M. H. Lance Read... 
C. ManLgault Morris.. 
John B. Washington.. 



4 July, 


1870 


19 Oct., 


1871 


4 J"iy, 


1872 


19 Oct., 


1872 


19 Oct., 


1872 


19 Oct., 


1872 


22 Feb., 


1873 


22 Feb., 


1874 


19 Oct., 


1872 


19 Oct., 


1875 


22 Feb., 


1876 


1 9 April, 


1877 


19 April, 


1876 


19 April, 


1876 


22 Feb., 


1877 


22 Eeb , 


1877 


19 Oct., 


1877 


22 Feb., 


1878 


19 Oct., 


1878 


19 Oct., 


1878 


22 Feb , 


1879 


4 J"iy, 


1879 


22 Feb., 


1879 


19 April, 


1880 


19 April, 


1880 


19 April, 


1880 


19 April, 


1880 



19 Oct. 



1880 
1880 



Father, Henry Purcell. 
Father, Dr. J. E. B. Finley. 
Father, Chas. L. Edwards. 
Father, Wilmot G. DeSauasure. 
Father, Dr. Hopson Pinckney. 
Father, Hon. James Simons. 
Grand-father, Capt. Enos Reeves. 
Grand-father, Robert Smith. 
Grand-father, Robert Smith. 
Grand-father, Capt. Enos Reeves. 
Grand-father, Gen. W. Hampton. 

Father, Elias Vanderhorst. 
Father, Dr. H. W. DeSaussure 
Father, Wilmot G. DeSaussure. 
Father, R. B Gilchrist. 
Father, W. Perronneau Finley. 
Father, Colonel Francis K. Huger. 
Father, Dr. W. W. Anderson. 
Father, R. G. Pinckney. 
Father, Wilmot G. DeSaussure. 
Grand-father, Henry Laurens. 
Grand-father, Gen. T. Pinckney. 
Father, D. H. Hamilton. 
Father, Benj H. Read. 
Grand-father, Gen. T. Pinckney. 
Father, J Harleston Read. 
Father, Lewis Morris. 
Grand-father, Wm. Washington. 



OFFICERS 

OF THE 




OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



1783. 

Elected at the first meeting held in Charleston, on 29th 
August, 1783: 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE 
Brig.-Gen. ISAAC HUGER .... 
Major THOMAS PINCKNEY . . 
Capt. CHARLES LINING .... 
Lieut. JAMES KENNEDY .... 
Lieut. SAMUEL BEEKMAN . . . 
JOHN SANFORD DART, Esq.. . 

Standing Committee appointed 6th October, ij8j. 

Col. Charles C. Pinckney. 
Col. Bernard Beekman. Lieut.-Col. William Washington. 
Major Robert Forsyth. Capt. Felix Waring. 

Lieut. Charles Brown. Dr. David Oliphant. 



. . President. 

. . Vice-President. 

. . Secretary. 

. . Treasurer. 

. . Assistant Treasurer. 

I Stewards. 



1784. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 

Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer . 
HENRY COLLINS FLAGG . . . . \ q , 
WILLIAM SMITH STEVENS . . . { * r£a,anls - 



40 

Standing Committee : 



[SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE, \i>th JULY, 1784.] 

By order of the President — An extra general meeting of the 
Society of the Cincinnati established in this State, will be 
held at the City Tavern, on Tuesday, the 27th inst., at 10 
o'clock in the morning, when members are requested to 
attend precisely at said hour.. 



1785. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE 

HENRY C. FLAGG 

WILLIAM S. STEVENS 

Standing Committee : 



[COLUMBIAN HERALD, dth JULY, 1785.] 

His Excellency, the Governor, (attended by many gentle- 
men) reviewed the whole under arms, being drawn up from 
the State House down Broad Street. And, afterwards, gave 
an elegant entertainment at the City Tavern, to a number of 
gentlemen, among them, the Consul and Vice-Consul of his 
most Christian Majesty, the officers, civil and military, of the 
State, the members of the Cincinnati Society, and several 
strangers, &c. 



. . President. 

Vice-President. 
Secretary. 
Treasurer. 
Assistant Treasurer. 

\ Stewards. 



41 



1786. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Brig.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President 

JOHN SANFORD DART Secretary. 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ \ c , 

Capt. HAMILTON ^tewaras. 

Standing Committee : 



{EVENING GAZETTE, $th JULY, 1786.] 

The members of the Cincinnati and South Carolina Societies 
dined at the City Tavern. 



1787. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Brig.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

I Stcivards. 
Standing Committee : 



[MORNING POST, yh JULY, 1787] 

The Society of the Cincinnati assembled at the President's 
house, and from thence walked to St. Michael's Church, where 
a most excellent sermon adapted to the great and eventful 



42 



day was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Purcell. The Society 
then paid their respects to the Governor, at his house ; from 
whence they adjourned to the City Tavern, and after the 
business was over, they dined and spent the remainder of the 
day with the utmost hilarity. 



Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Brig.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 



Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE. . . . President. 
Brig.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President 



1788 



CHARLES LINING 



Secretary. 
Treasurer. 
Assistant Treasurer. 




Standing Committee : 



1789. 



CHARLES LINING 



Sec retary. 
Treasurer. 
Assistant Treasurer, 




Standing Committee; 



43 



[CITY GAZETTE, loth FEBRUARY, 1790.] 

ADDRESS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, IN THE STATE OF 
SOUTH CAROLINA, VOTED I7TH NOVEMBER, 1 789. 

To George Washington, President of the United States : 

Sir : Possessed of every feeling that can act on grateful 
hearts, the Society of the Cincinnati established in the State 
of South Carolina, beg leave to congratulate you on the happy 
occasion which has once again placed you in a situation of 
rendering general good to their country. Retired from the 
busy scenes of life to reap the rewards of your virtuous acts, 
and to enjoy the glory you had already attained, your fellow 
citizens viewed you with exulting happiness, they saw in you 
the patriot hero, the friend and savior of their country, and 
with hearts filled with gratitude and affection, they invoked 
the All Disposer of human events to render that retirement 
happy. The period however arrived when the abilities of 
the virtuous patriot were again to be called forth to assume a 
public character. A general political government was formed 
by which the happiness of the country for whose liberty you 
had fought, was now to be established. To preside at the 
head of this new government, to establish it with permanency, 
the people sought in the great Washington the virtues on 
which they could rely wi f h safety and from which they might 
expect to receive every benefit without alloy. They had ex- 
perienced his abilities, they had experienced his integrity and 
his inviolable love for his country. Nor did they seek in 
vain. The same noble spirit which actuated you at the begin- 
ning of our late contest with Great Britain, now operated. 
You received and obeyed the summons, and although you 
should make a sacrifice, yet you nobly determined it was the 
voice of your country in whose service every inferior con- 
sideration of ease and retirement must give place. As citi- 
zens, we congratulate you, sir, on this additional proof of your 
country's confidence. As soldiers who partook with you in 
many of the dangers and hardships which attended the general 
army under your command, we beg leave to express our 
warmest attachment to your person and our sincerest wishes for 
your happiness and honor, and that we may, under your rule, 
supported by your amiable virtues, happily experience and 
long enjoy the fruits of a government which has for its basis 
the good of the people of America. 

By order of the Society. 

WILLIAM MOULTRIE, 

President. 



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THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER. 

To the State Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina : 

Gentlemen : From a conviction that the dispositions of the 
Society of the Cincinnati established in the State of South 
Carolina, are peculiarly friendly to me, I cannot receive their 
congratulations on the occasion which gave birth to their 
address without emotions of peculiar satisfaction. 

The interest which my fellow-citizens so kindly took in the 
happiness which they saw me enjoy in my retirement after the 
war, is rather to be attributed to their great partiality in my 
favor, than any singular title I had to their gratitude and affec- 
tion. Notwithstanding I was conscious that my abilities had 
been too highly appreciated, yet I felt that whatever they were 
my country had a just claim upon me whenever the exercise 
of these should be deemed conducive to its welfare. With 
such feelings I could not refuse to obey that voice which I 
had always been accustomed to respect, nor hesitate to forego 
a resolution which I had formed of passing the remainder of 
my days in retirement. And so far am I from having any 
reason to repent of the decided measures I took in the crisis 
of organizing a new general government, that I ought rather, 
perhaps, to felicitate myself upon having met the wishes and 
experienced the assistance of a patriotic and enlightened 
people in my arduous undertaking. Always satisfied that I 
should be supported in the administration of my office by the 
friends of the new government in general, I counted upon the 
favorable sentiment and conduct of the officers of the late 
army in particular. Nor has my expectation been deceived. 
As they were formerly distinguished by their eminent forti- 
tude and patriotism in their military service during the most 
trying occasions, so are the same men now mingled in the 
mass of citizens conspicuous for a disinterested love or order 
and a zealous attention to the preservation of the rights of 
mankind. Nor is it conceivable that any members of the 
community should be more worthy of the enjoyment of lib- 
erty or more zealous to perpetuate duration than those who 
have so nobly and so successfully defended its standard in the 
new world. I sincerely thank you, gentlemen, for the ex- 
pression of attachment to my person and wish for my happi- 
ness and honor. On my part I only dare to engage it shall 
be my incessant study that you may happily experience and 
long enjoy the fruits of a government which has for its basis 
the good of the American people. 

G. WASHINGTON. 



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1790. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Brig.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

tci vy . 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasure? . 

\ Steivards. 
Standing Committee : 



1791. 



Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE. . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

JOHN SANDFORD DART Secretary. 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

\ Stewards. 
Standing Committee : 



1792. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE. . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vicc-Picsident. 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

\ Stewards. 



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Standing Committee : 



1793. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY. . Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

I Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 



1794. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE. . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Sccvc tcivy . 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

\ Stczvards. 



Standing Committee : 



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1795. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

CLARLES LINING Treasure?. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

j- Steivards. 

Standing Committee : 



1798. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

j- Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 



1797. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 

\ Stewards. 



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Standing Committee : 



Gen. Isaac Huger, died, 17th October, 1797. 

[CHARLESTON GAZETTE AND ADVERTISER, zd NOVEMBER, 1797.] 

Between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, on the morn- 
ing of the 6th ultimo, and in the fifty-fourth year of his age, 
an apoplectic fit terminated the existence of the much beloved 
and equally lamented Isaac Huger, who was possessed of a 
heart of unbounded benevolence, a temper easy and agreea- 
ble, manners polite and engaging, and strength of mind truly 
determined, with a degree of courage and bravery the most 
undaunted, when contending with danger imminent and critical, 
difficult and trying, happy in the sincere and affectionate 
attachment of his friends, yet respected by those who in our 
late contest entertained sentiments immediately opposed to his 
opinion, and to the cause to which he had devoted his ser- 
vices. His talents as a soldier were highly esteemed, even at 
the early age of seventeen years, when he was nominated to 
a lieutenancy in a battalion raised in 1760, commanded by 
Thomas Middleton, Esq., for the express purpose of protect- 
ing our then defenseless and thinly settled inhabitants of the 
upper country from the barbarous and savage incursions of 
the Cherokee and other Indians. In 1775, the remarkable 
juncture, when the demon of discord influenced the British 
nation with an overruling passion for dominion and lust of 
power, and ultimately excited the Cabinet of St. James to 
attempt the unwarrantable and destructive plan to subdue by 
force of arms and military array her peaceful and rising Colo- 
nies, and war in consequence pervaded American rights; he 
was by the unanimous vote of his fellow-citizens, elected 
senior Lieutenant-Colonel in South Carolina, of the troops 
established by the Provincial Congress. In 1 776, he was 
appointed Colonel of the Fifth Regiment, and in 1778, pro- 
moted to the rank of Brigadier-General in the Army of the 
United States, in which various and important stations, he had 
the honor and satisfaction to acquit himself with the universal 
applause and approbation of his country. 



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1798. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Capt.ADAM GILCHRIST Assistant Treasurer. 

Lieut. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

Maj. THOMAS B. BOVVEN 1 c , 

Capt. THOMAS HALL ^tewaras. 

Standing Committee : 

Col. Mitchell, Maj. Beekman, 

Capt. Daniel Mazyck, Lieut. Daniel D'Oyley, 

Dr. Joseph H. Ramsay, Dr. Thomas H. McCalla, 

Dr. William Read. 

Col. John F. Grimke, Orator for 4th July, 1799. 



1799. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Capt. AD A M GI LC H RIST Assistant Treasurer. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

Capt. THOMAS HALL \ c , 

Capt. DANIEL D'OYLEY / * tewaras - 

Standing Committee : 

Maj. Beekman, Dr. Jos. H. Ramsay, 

Dr. William Read, Rev. Henry Purcell, 

Capt. Enos Reeves, Dr. Thomas H. McCalla. 



1800. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Capt.A DAM GILCHRIST Assistant Treasurer. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

Col. D'OYLEY . . . \ c , , 

ISAAC M. DART ......... / * tewaras - 

4 



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Standing Committee : 

Col. Mitchell, Dr. Ramsay, 

Maj. Beekman, Dr. McCalla, 

Rev. D. Purcell, Dr. Read. 



1801. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST Assistant Treasurer. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

Col. DANIEL D'OYLEY \ c , , 

ISAAC M. DART ^tezvaras. 

Standing Committee : 

Col. Mitchell, Maj. Beekman, 

Capt. Enos Reeves, Rev. Dr. Henry Purcell, 

Dr. William Read, Dr. Joseph H. Ramsay, 

Dr. Thomas H. McCalla. 



1802. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST Assistant Treasurer. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

Capt. DANIEL MAZYCK 1 c , 

Dr. JOSEPH H. RAMSAY .... )^ tewarcls - 

Standing Committee : 

Col. Mitchell, Col. Daniel D'Oyley, 

Maj. Beekman. Maj. Simeon Theus, 

Capt. Thomas Hall, Dr. William Read. 

Dr. Thomas H. McCalla. 



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1803. 



Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY 
Maj. CHARLES LINING . . 
Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST . 
Maj. GEORGE REID .... 
Capt. DANIEL MAZYCK . . 
Dr. THOMAS H. McCALLA 



President. 

Vice-President. 
. Treasurer. 
. Assistant Treasurer. 
. Secretary. 

j- Stewards. 



Standing- Committee , 



Maj. Simeon Theus, 
Maj. Warley, 



Maj. Beekman, 
Col. Daniel D'Oyley, 
Dr. William Read. 



1804, 



Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. 
Maj.-Gen. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST Assistant Treasurer. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

Capt. DANIEL MAZYCK 1 c , 

Col. DANIEL D'OYLEY 



Col. Mitchell, 
Dr. William Read, 
Maj. Beekman, 



Standing Committee : 

Capt. Thomas Hall, 
Isaac M. Dart, 
Maj. Warley, 
Maj. Simeon Theus. 



Capt. Adam Gilchrist, Orator for 4th July, 1805. 



1805. 

Maj.-Gen. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . .President. 

Maj. THOMAS PINCKNEY Vice-President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST Assistant Treasurer. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ \ o^„ //f 

Capt. JAMES KENNEDY J ^ ea,a ' ai - 



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Standing Committee : 



\ 



Maj. Thomas Pinckney was elected Vice-President in the 
place of Maj.-Gen. Charles C. Pinckney. who, having been 
elected President-General of the General Society of the Cin- 
cinnati, declined a re-election as Vice-President of the State 
Society. 

Maj.-Gen. William Moultrie died 29th September, 1805. 
At a meeting of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina, 
held on the 27th of September, 1805 — 

Resolved, That this Society do wear military mourning for 
two months, as a mark of respect for the memory of our late 
venerable President, Major-General William Moultrie. 

Resolved, That the Vice-President do request the Rev. Dr. 
Hollinshead to deliver a funeral sermon on the death of the 
late President of this Society, Major-General Moultrie, at such 
time and place as will be most suitable to him ; and that the 
Revolutionary Society, the clergymen of the city, the civil 
and the military officers, and such other of their fellow-citi- 
zens as are desirous of paying a respect to their late virtuous 
and patriotic General, be invited to go in procession with 
them to hear the same. 

Resolved, That the Governor and his suite, and Judge Hey- 
ward be requested to join the procession of the Cincinnati on 
the above occasion. 

Resolved, That this Society bears a grateful sense of the 
attention shown by Col. Wilkie, Commandant of the militia, 
and by the officers and men of the several corps for the 
respect paid by them in attending the funeral of the late 
General Moultrie. 

Resolved, That as soon as the Rev. Dr. Hollinshead shall 
have fixed on the time and place for the delivery of said ser- 
mon, that the Secretary do give proper notice and invitations 
to the persons referred to in the former resolutions. 

On 15th October, 1805, Rev. Dr. William Hollingshead, 
Pastor of the Independent or Congregational Church, pro- 
nounced, at the Independent Church, as he had been requested, 



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a funeral sermon on the death of General Moultrie. The 
American Revolutionary Society, also, attending with the 
Cincinnati Society, as invited. This sermon was published 
by the Cincinnati Society. A copy will be found in the 
Charleston Library, Pamphlets, Vol. I, 1st Series. 

On 28th September, 1805, an order was issued by Gov. 
Paul Hamilton, desiring all civil and military officers to wear 
crape for four weeks, as a testimony of respect to the memory 
of Major-General William Moultrie. 

An Eulogy by Major Alexander Garden was pronounced 
before the Cincinnati Society, on 14th October, 1805, and 
was published. It will be found in the printed pamphlet 
containing the rules of the Society. 

A portrait of General Moultrie, in Continental uniform 
and wearing the badge of the Cincinnati Society, hangs in, 
the rooms of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce. 



1806. 




Standing Committee : 



Col. John Mitchell, Maj. Simeon Theus, 

Col. Daniel D'Oyley, Capt. Thomas Hall, 

Maj. Warley, Maj. Beekman, 



Dr. Thomas H. McCalla, 



Maj. Haskell, Orator for 4th July, 1807. 



1807. 



Maj. THOMAS PINCKNEY 
Maj. CHARLES LINING . 
Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST. 
ISAAC MOTTE DART . . 
Maj. GEORGE REID . . . 
Capt. JAMES KENNEDY, . 
JOHN MARTIN 



President. 
Vice-President. 
Treasurer. 
Assistant Treasurer. 
Secretary. 




Stewards. 



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Standing Committee: 

Col. John Mitchell, Col. Daniel D'Oyley, 

Maj. Simeon Theus, Maj. Warley, 

Capt. Thomas Hall, Dr. Thomas A. McCalla, 

Maj. Beekman. 



Maj. THOMAS PINCKNEY ..... President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Vice-President. 

Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST Treasurer. 

ISAAC MOTTE DART Assistant Treasurer. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

Capt. JAMES KENNEDY \ c , 

THOMAS SHUBRICK ^stewards. 

Standing Committee: 

Col. John Mitchell, Maj. Simeon Theus, 

Maj. Warley, Capt. Thomas Hall, 

Dr. Thomas H. McCalla, Dr. William Read. 

Thomas S. Grimke, Orator for 4th July, 1809. 



1809. 

Maj. THOMAS PINCKNEY President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Vice-President. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Treasurer. 

ISAAC MOTTE DART Assistant Treasurer. 

Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST Secretary. 

Capt. JAMES KENNEDY 1 _ , 

RICHARD BOHUN BAKER . . . ]* tewards - 

Standing Committee: 

Col. John Mitchell, Maj. Simeon Theus, 

Maj. Felix Warley, Maj. Samuel Beekman, 

Dr. William Read, Lionel H. Kennedy, 

Henry W. DeSaussure. 

Col. Thomas Shubrick, died 4th March, 1810. 
Gen. William Washington, died 6th March, 18 10. 



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1810. 



Maj. THOMAS PINCKNEY . 
Maj. CHARLES LINING . . 
Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST . . 
ISAAC MOTTE DART . . . 
Col. JOHN MITCHELL . . . 
RICHARD BOHUN BAKER. 
FELIX B. WARLEY .... 



. . . . President. 

. . . . Vice-President. 

. . . . Treasurer. 

■ . . . Assistant Treasurer. 

, . . . Secretary. 

j- Stewards. 



Standing Committee: 

Maj. Felix Warley, Maj. Samuel Beekman, 

Capt. Thomas Hall, Lionel H. Kennedy, 

Dr. William Read, Dr. William S. Stevens, 

William Washington. 

Robert Smith, Orator for 4th July, 181 1. 



1811. 

Maj. THOMAS PINCKNEY President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Vice-President. 

Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST Treasurer. 

ISAAC MOTTE DART Assistant Treasurer. 

Maj. GEORGE REID Secretary. 

ROBERT SMITH \ c . , 

FELIX B. WARLEY ^tewaras. 

Standing Committee: 

Maj. Felix Warley, Maj. Samuel Beekman 

Capt. Thomas Hall, Dr. William Read, 

Dr. William S. Stevens, Lionel H. Kennedy. 



1812. 

Mai-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 

Maj. CHARLES LINING Vice-President. 

Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST Treasurer. 

ISAAC MOTTE DART Assistant Treasurer 

Col. JOHN MITCHELL Secretary. 

THOMAS S. GRIMKE \ <-.. , 

STATES GIST ^stewards. 



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Standing Committee : 

Maj. Felix Warley, Maj. Simeon Theus, 

Col. Daniel D'Oyley, Capt. Thomas Hall, 

Dr. William S. Stevens, Dr. William Read, 

Lieut. James Legare. 

Lionel H. Kennedy, Orator for 4th July, 181 3. 



1813. 

Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 

Major CHARLES LINING Vice-President. 

Captain ADAM GILCHRIST Treasurer. 

ISAAC MOTTE DART ....... Assistant Treasurer. 

Colonel JOHN MITCHELL Secretary. 

Captain LIONEL H. KENNEDY . . . Assistant Secretary. 
WILLIAM MASON SMITH . . . . \ c , 
JAMES GILCHRIST ^tewaras. 

Standing Committee : 



Major Charles Lining, Vice-President, died 16th August, 
1813. 

CHARLESTON COURIER, zytA AUGUST, 1813 .- 

" Charleston, August 19, 181 3. 

The members of the Cincinnatti are requested to wear mili- 
tary mourning for one month, as a tribute of respect to the 
memory of their deceased brother , Charles Lining. 

JOHN MITCHELL, Secretary." 



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1814. 

Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 
Major ALEXANDER GARDEN . . . Vice-President. 

ISAAC M. DART Treasurer. 

WILLIAM MASON SMITH Assistant Treasurer. 

LIONEL H. KENNEDY ........ Secretary. 

J. HARLESTON READ ] rj 

WARLEY I Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 

Colonel John Mitchell, 
Major Felix Warley, Dr. William Read, 

Dr. William S. Stevens, Major Simeon Theus, 

Captain Thomas Hall, Thomas S. Grimke. 

William Mason Smith, Orator for 4th July, 181 5. 



1815. 

Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 
Major ALEXANDER GARDEN . . . Vice-President. 

ISAAC MOTTE DART Treasurer. 

WILLIAM MASON SMITH Assistant Treasurer. 

Captain LIONEL H. KENNEDY . . . Secretary. 

E. B. LINING 

WILLIAM CATTELL 

Standing Committee , 



Stewards. 



Colonel John Mitchell, 
Thomas S. Grimke, • Dr. William S. Stevens, 

Dr. William Read, Christopher R. Greene, 

Major Simeon Theus, . Col. Daniel D'Oyley. 



1816. 

Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 
Major ALEXANDER GARDEN . . . Vice-President. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE Treasurer. 

WILLIAM MASON SMITH Assistant Treasurer. 

LIONEL H. KENNEDY Secretary. 

FRANCES L. LEGARE \ <^„ Wf 

GEORGE B.REID ^Stewards. 



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Standing Committee : 

Colonel John Mitchell, 
Thomas S. Grimke, Dr. William S. Stevens, 

Dr. William Read, Major Simeon Theus, 

Colonel Daniel D'Oyley, Christopher R. Greene. 

Henry A. DeSaussure, Orator for 4th July, 18 17. 



1817. 

Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 
Major ALEXANDER GARDEN . . . Vice-President. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE Treasurer. 

WILLIAM MASON SMITH Assistant Treasurer. 

CHRISTOPHER R. GREENE .... Secretary. 

Dr. WILLIAM HALL \ Stewards 

JAMES GILCHRIST ^tewaias. 

Standing Committee : 



Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 

Major ALEXANDER GARDEN . . . Vice-President. 

Captain HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE . . Treasurer. 
Captain WILLIAM MASON SMITH . .Assistant Treasurer. 

Dr. J. E. B. FINLEY .Secretary. 

WILLIAM BUDD \ _ , 

ROBERT B. GILCHRIST ^tewaras. 

Standing Committee : 

Dr. William Read. 
Major Simeon Theus, Col. Daniel D'Oyley, 

Dr. William S. Stevens, Thomas S. Grimke, 

Robert Smith, Major Lionel H. Kennedy. 



Chas. Cotesworth Pinckney, Jr., Orator for 4th July, 18 19. 



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1819. 



Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . 
Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN . . 
Capt. HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE . 
Capt. WILLIAM MASON SMITH 
ROBERT B. GILCHRIST .... 
Dr. CHARLES EDWARDS . . . 
SIMEON THEUS 



. President. 

. Vice-President. 

. Treasurer. 

. Assistant Treasurer. 

. Secretary. 

j- Stewards. 



Standing Committee . 



Dr. William Read. 
Col. Daniel D'Oyley. 
Dr. William S. Stevens. 



Thomas S. Grimke. 



Robert Smith. 

Gen. Daniel E. Huger. 

Maj. Lionel H. Kennedy. 



1820. 



Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . 
Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN . . 
Capt. HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE . 
Capt. WILLIAM MASON SMITH 
ROBERT BUDD GILCHRIST . . 



President. 

Vice-President. 

Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 
Secretary. 



CHS. COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, Jr 1 c , , 
C. W. D'OYLEY J * tewaras - 

Standing Committee : 

Dr. William Read. Daniel E. Huger. 

Col. Daniel D'Oyley. Robert Smith. 

Dr. William S. Stevens. Thomas S. Grimke. 

Lionel H. Kennedy. 

Maj. James Hamilton, Orator for 4th July, 1821. 



1821, 



Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . 
Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN . . 
Capt. HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE . 
Capt. WILLIAM MASON SMITH 

ROBERT B. GILCHRIST Secretary. 

Maj. JAMES HAMILTON, Jr . . . 1 e , , 

A. S. REEVES f ^ tewaras - 



President. 
Vice-President. 
Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 



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Standing Committee : 

Dr. William Read. Hon. Daniel E. Huger. 

Dr. William S. Stevens. Robert Smith. 

Col. William Drayton. Thomas S. Grimke. 

Lionel H. Kennedy. 



1822. 



Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 
Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN .... Vice-President. 

EDWARD LINING Treasurer. 

Dr. I. MOTTE CAMPBELL Secretary. 

GEORGE W. EGLESTON \ , 

J.B. LEGARE ^Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 

Dr. William Read. Robert Smith. 

Dr. William S. Stevens. Thomas S. Grimke. 

Hon. James Legare. Maj. Lionel H. Kennedy. 

Hon. Daniel E. Huger. Col. William Drayton. 

Maj. James Hamilton. 

Robert Budd Gilchrist, Orator for 4th July, 1823. 



1823. 

Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 
Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN .... Vice-President. 

Treasurer. 

I. M. CAMPBELL Secretary. 

j> Stewards. 



Standing Committee : 



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1824. 

Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY 
Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN . 
Maj. LIONEL H. KENNEDY . 
Dr. I. MOTTE CAMPBELL . 
Dr. S. B. RUSH FINLEY . . 
HENRY PURCELL 



Standing Com 



President. 
Vice-President. 
Treasurer. 
Secretary. 



j> Stewards. 



nittee : 



Dr. William Read. 
J. Legare. 
Robert Smith. 



Thomas S. Grimke. 
Hon. Daniel E. Huger. 
Col. William Drayton. 



Maj. James Hamilton. 



1825. 

Maj.-Gen. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . . President. 
Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN . . Vice-President. 
Maj. LIONEL H. KENNEDY .... Treasurer. 
Dr. ISAAC MOTTE CAMPBELL . . . Secretary. 

j- Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 

Dr. William Read. Col. William Drayton. 

James Legare. Maj. James Hamilton. 

Hon. Daniel E. Huger. Thomas S. Grimke. 

Robert Smith. 



Maj.-Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, President-Gene- 
ral, died i6th August, 1825. 

At a special meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati of 
South Carolina, held at the Court House, on Thursday, the 
1 8th August, 1825, Dr. Read, Chairman of the Standing Com- 
mittee, being called to the chair, the following address and 
resolution offered by the Hon. William Drayton, were imme- 
diately and unanimously adopted : 

Mr. Chairman : We have met here to express our feelings 
upon a mournful occasion ; to testify by some memorial how- 
ever frail, yet sincere, that we are not insensible of the priva- 
tion which this community and ourselves have sustained in 



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the death of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the 
patriot, the statesman, and the soldier. One of that illustrious 
band, to which we are indebted for our liberties and inde- 
pendence. His life was extended to extreme old age, yet did 
he so conduct himself through its whole duration, as not 
only to obtain the applause of the wise and good, but what is 
seldom the lot of the illustrious, in such a manner as to 
avoid the slanders of envy, and the vindictiveness of malice. 
Wherever his country was to be served, he was conspicuous ; 
he aided her by his valor in the field, by his integrity and 
counsel in the cabinet; seeking no other reward than the con- 
sciousness that he had faithfully discharged his duty towards 
God and man. His was the rare felicity of running an un- 
broken career of virtue and usefulness ; honored and honora- 
ble from the vernal bloom of youth, to the maturity of man- 
hood and the frosts of age. Such is the chequered scene of 
humanity, such the uncertainty of worldly anticipation, that 
not unfrequently, the warmest friends of the most distin- 
guished men, have wished that those who were once the ob- 
jects of their affection, and of public idolatry, had sooner 
terminated their lives, because having earned a fair fame, they 
were afterwards betrayed by the weakness of some unguarded 
moment, or the violence of some tempestuous passion, into 
the commission of acts, which withered their glory and con- 
signed them with ignominy to the tomb. How different was 
it with our honorable townsman. On the last day of his ex- 
istence, he could look back on his long life, with the satisfac- 
tion that he had never swerved from the path of rectitude and 
honor. To the end of his journey, he devoted himself to 
patriotic usefulness, until this mortal scene was closed upon 
him forever. May a reputation so achieved and so preserved, 
long survive in the recollections and the regrets of his coun- 
try ; and may the influence of such an example animate and 
instruct the generations which live after him. 

When we who are here assembled call to mind that the 
deceased was the President-General of our Society, in addi- 
tion to what we feel in common with our fellow-citizens, we 
have to deplore a loss, peculiar to ourselves ; the loss of one 
who often gladdened our festivity by his social qualities, and 
who imparted a dignity to our body by his moral and intel- 
lectual worth. 

Let us then pay our tribute of affection and respect to his 
memory ; after a well-spent life, he rests from his earthly 
labors ; reposing upon the bosom of his Father and God, he 
is insensible to the honors of this world; but, let us not be 



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unmindful of ourselves, let us not suffer so great and so good 
a man to descend in silence to the grave. I now beg leave 
Mr. Chairman, to offer the following resolutions : 

1st. Wheieas, It has pleased Divine Providence to remove 
from this life, our brother, General Charles Cotesworth Pinck- 
ney, who through the course of a long and illustrious career, 
displayed those great and good qualities, which entitle him 
to the admiration and gratitude of his countrymen, who de- 
plore in his death, the loss of the incorruptible patriot, the 
wise statesman, the gallant soldier, and the virtuous citizen, 
be it therefore 

Resolved, By the members of the Cincinnati of South Caro- 
lina, as a testimony of respect and affection for his memory, 
that they will wear crape on the left arm for thirty days. 

2d. Resolved, That Major Alexander Garden be requested 
at such time and place as he shall appoint, to deliver an eu- 
logy in commemoration of the virtues and talents of the 
deceased. 

3d. Resolved, That copies of the Hon. Willam Drayton's 
address, and of these resolutions, be transmitted by the Chair- 
man to the daughters of the deceased, informing them that 
although we reluctantly obtrude upon the privacy of domestic 
sorrow, we^rust that after time shall have blunted the poign- 
ancy of their grief, that it will afford some consolation to 
them; that the members of this Society sincerely sympathise 
with them in their affliction, and that their venerable parent 
has not descended to the grave without those tributes of re- 
spect and gratitude, which his talents and his virtue so emi- 
nently merited. 

4th. Resolved, That these resolutions be published in all 
the gazettes of the city. 

Extract from the minutes. I. M. CAMPBELL, 

Secretary. 

On Tuesday, 1st November, 1825, Major Alexander Garden, 
delivered in St. Philip's Church, as he had been requested, an 
eulogy on Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, President- 
General of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

At a meeting of the State Society of the Cincinnati, held 
1st November, 1825, on motion 

Resolved, That Major Alexander Garden be requested to 
furnish for publication, a copy of the eulogy this day delivered 
by him, at St. Philip's Church on the occasion of the death of 



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Major-General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, President-Gene- 
ral of the Society of the Cincinnati, and that the publication 
thereof be superintended by the Committee of Arrangements 
already appointed. 

Extract from the minutes. 

I. M. CAMPBELL, 

Secretary. 

The eulogy was published by the Society in pamphlet, a 
copy of such pamphlet is in the possession of T. Pinckney 
Lowndes, Esq., and from it the above proceedings have been 
extracted. 

On 16th March, 1825, Gen. LaFayette visited Charleston; 
the Cincinnati Society formed a part of the procession by 
which he was escorted to the City Hall. 

After the dismission of the procession, the General re- 
ceived from. Col. William Drayton, the Chairman of the Com- 
mittee of the Cincinnati Society, a beautiful and pathetic ex- 
pression of the feeling with which his fellow-soldiers, and 
their descendants approached this oft-tried veteran in the 
cause of liberty. The address is as follows : 

Sir: The Cincinnati Society of South Carolina has depu- 
ted us as a committee to express to you its congratulations 
upon your arrival in this city. It is with no common pleasure 
we recollect that you first touched the soil of the United 
States in South Carolina. At that period our political hori- 
zon was wrapped in gloom. One hostile army was advancing 
into the heart of our country, whilst another was in pos- 
session of New York, and desolating Jersey. No ally aided 
our cause. Our small band of soldiers wanted arms, pro- 
visions and clothes ; and of money, the sinews of war, we 
were almost destitute. At this disastrous crisis, you tore 
yourself in the bloom of youth, from the bosom of your 
domestic happiness ; you abandoned the charms of a de- 
lightful kingdom, the enjoyments of a princely fortune, and 
the blandishments of a splendid court, to encounter privation 
and toil, and danger in a foreign land, in a foreign cause ; and 
under such appalling circumstances as permitted scarcely any 
other anticipation than that of falling with a falling cause. 

Brighter prospects afterwards arose. America ultimately 
triumphed, and towards her triumph you largely contributed. 
After spending your treasure in her service ; after shedding 
your blood in her battles, you saw her glorious and inde- 



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pendent. At Yorktown, with the immortal Washington, you 
witnessed the surrender of an army, whose capture secured 
our freedom. You, there, sir, as in other fields, displayed 
your valor and your skill. Since that event you have passed 
through many trials, and endured many misfortunes ; and 
though you could not obtain for France that temperate liberty 
for which you had fought, and in the achievement of which 
you had conquered here, you were yet influenced by the same 
motive, and on both occasions risked everything dearest to 
man, regardless of personal consideration. You have now, 
sir, attained to an advanced age, enjoying felicity which is 
granted to few human beings. You can meditate upon the 
past with the satisfaction that you have accomplished honora- 
ble deeds by honorable means. You can look towards the 
future with the consciousness that you merit the applause of 
the wise and good. Welcome, sir, to the United States ! 
Welcome to South Carolina. 

Some few members of our Society still survive who were 
your companions in arms ; by them you will be greeted with 
fraternal affection. May you remain among us gratified with 
your reception. May your departure from our shores be long 
deferred. May you always cherish in your heart, our coun- 
try's memory, and may its conduct towards you, convince the 
world that our Republic is not ungrateful. 

To which address, Gen. LaFayette, replied : 

Col. Drayton, Chairman of the Committee of the Cincinnati 
Society. — To the Cincinnati Society of South Carolina : 

Never has life appeared more valuable to me, than when I 
find I have remained to meet my surviving comrades of our 
Revolutionary Army ; to mourn with them over the numer- 
ous departed brethren, whose loss we have to deplore, to re- 
peat together the name of our paternal Commander-in-Chief, 
and many other illustrious names most dear to us; and while 
we witness the blessings of independence, prosperity and self 
government which have been the result of our glorious war, 
to congratulate ourselves on the honor we had to partake in 
common in its toils and dangers. 

But my fraternal recollections are not confined to this hem- 
isphere, and I am happy also to have lived to present my per- 
sonal acknowledgement to the respected President of the 
South Carolina Society, for my great and multiplied obliga- 
tions to him as an American Minister in London during my 
captivity. 
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Receive my dear comrades the most affectionate thanks of 
an old brother soldier, and be assured that whatever may be 
my^fortune and destinies, the flattering and honorable wel- 
come I receive in this city, and particularly the so very grati- 
fying testimonials of your esteem and friendship on that 
happy and affecting occasion, shall never be erased from my 
grateful heart. 

On the same day, 16th March, 1825, Gen. LaFayette was 
entertained at dinner by the Cincinnati Society. 

Maj.-Gen. Thomas Pinckney, was elected President-General 
after the death of his brother Maj.-Gen. Charles Cotesworth 
Pinckney, and at the anniversary on 4th July, 1826, declined 
a re-election as President of the State Society of the Cincin- 
nati. 



1826. 

Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN .... President. 

Maj. JAMES HAMILTON Vice-President. 

Dr. ISAAC MOTTE CAMPBELL . . Secretary. 

CHARLES LINING Treasurer. 

Dr. LINING \ c . , 

RICHARD PINCKNEY ^stewards. 



Standing Committee : 

Dr. William Read, William Drayton, 

James Legare, James Hamilton, Jr., 

Daniel E. Huger, Robert Smith 

Thomas S. Grimke. 



1827. 

Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN .... President. 
Maj. JAMES HAMILTON Vice-President. 

Tv£CLS It T£f 

Dr. S. B. RUSH FINLEY Secretary'. 

Dr. JOHN B. IRVING \ c , 

W. PERONNEAU FINLEY . . . . / * tewards - 



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Standing Committee : 

Dr. William Read, William Drayton, 

James Legare, Thomas S. Grimke, 

Daniel E. Huger, Flagg, 

Dr. Maham Haig. 



1828. 

Maj. ALEXANDER GARDEN .... President. 

Maj. JAMES HAMILTON Vice-Resident. 

Treasurer. 

S. B. R. FINLEY, M. D Secretary, 

\ Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 



Dr. John^B. Irving, Orator for 4th July, 1829. 

Major-Gen. Thomas Pinckney, President-General, died 2d 
November, 1828. 

Major Alexander Garden, President of the State Society, 
died 24th February, 1829. 



1829. 

Major JAMES HAMILTON . 
Dr. WILLIAM READ .... 

CHARLES LINING 

Dr. S. B. RUSH FINLEY . . 
CHARLES A. DeSAUSSURE 
HENRY W. PERONNEAU . 

Standing Committee : 

Captain Richard Bohun Baker, Hon. Daniel E. Huger, 
Captain James Legare, Colenel William Drayton, 

Hon. Thomas S. Grimke, Major James Hamilton, 

Dr. Maham Haig. 



, .President. 
. Vice-President. 
. Treasurer. 
.Secretary. 

\ Stewards. 



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1830. 

Major JAMES HAMILTON President. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

Dr. S. B. RUSH FINLEY Secretary. 

BARNARD ELLIOTT, \ c . , 

R. H. LINING J 



Standing Committee: 

Richard Bohun Baker, William Mason Smith, 

William Drayton, Daniel E. Huger, 

Thomas S. Grimke, James Hamilton, 

Dr. Maham Haig. 

Henry W. Peronneau, Orator for 4th July, 1 83 1 . 



1831. 



Major JAMES HAMILTON President. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

Dr. S.-B. RUSH FINLEY Secretary. 

CHARLES WARLEY 

Dr. JOHN A. RAMSAY 

Standing Committee : 



Stewards. 



1832. 

Major JAMES HAMILTON President. 

Dr. WTLLIAM READ Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

CHARLES A. DeSAUSSURE .... Secretary. 

CHARLES WARLEY \ ~ , 

WTLLIAM C. FAYSSOUX > steam as. 



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Standing Committee : 

Richard Bohun Baker, William Mason Smith, 

William Drayton, Daniel E. Huger, 

James Hamilton, Thomas S. Grimke, 

Dr. Maham Haig. 



1833. 

Major JAMES HAMILTON . 
Dr. WILLIAM READ .... 

GEORGE B. REID 

CHARLES A. DeSAUSSURE 
CHARLES WARLEY .... 
BARNARD ELLIOTT .... 

Standing Committee : 

Richard Bohun Baker, James Hamilton, 

Elias Vanderhorst, Henry W. Peronneau, 

Edward R. Laurens, Edward B. Lining. 

Major James Hamilton, President, died 26 November, 1833. 

The funeral procession on November, 1833, was formed at 
the Battery, near the residence of Judge Pn'oleau (from which 
the body was to be moved), in the following order : 

4th. The Cincinnati Society, of which the deceased was for 
many years President. 



. President. 
. Vice-President. 
. Treasurer. 
. Secretary. 

\ Stewards. 



1834. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ President. 

Capt. RICHARD BOHUN BAKER . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

Dr. J. E. B. FINLEY Secretary. 

j- Stewards. 



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Standing Committee : 



James Hamilton, 
Henry W. Peronneau, 
Edward R. Laurens, 



Dr. Isaac Motte Campbell, 
Edward B. Lining, 
Elias Vanderhorst, 



Dr. William Hall. 



At a meeting of the Society of Cincinnati, of the State of 
South Carolina, held on the evening of the 3rd of July, 1834, 
a special committee, consisting of Lionel H. Kennedy, Henry 
W. Peronneau and John B. Irving, Esquires, previously ap- 
pointed to prepare a memoir of the life and military services 
of Major James Hamilton, late President of the Society, made 
the following report, which, on resolution, was ordered to be 
entered on the journals of the Society, to be printed in the 
papers of the city, and that a sufficient number of copies 
should be stricken off in pamphlet form for distribution 
among the members of the Society. 



The Special Committee appointed by the Cincinnati Socie- 
ty, of South Carolina, to collect such facts and memoranda as 
they might be able to procure of the Revolutionary services 
of their late President, Major James Hamilton, Sr., that the 
same may be recorded on their journals, beg leave respectful- 
ly to present the following brief memoir: 

Major James Hamilton, Sr., was born in the town of Lan- 
caster, Pennsylvania, on the 16th of September, 1750. His 
ancestors were emigrants from the North of Ireland. His 
father was a highly respectable farmer, who resided in the 
vicinity of Lancaster, and who gave to his son a classical 
education, with the view of qualifying him for the medical 
profession, the study of which he commenced with the cele- 
brated Dr. Shippen, in 1774. Immediately, however, on the 
occurrence of the battle of Lexington, young Hamlton, with 
all the enthusiasm of youthful patriotism, abandoned his pro- 
fessional studies and returned to Lancaster, where, together 
with James Ross, (subsequently a distinguished officer of the 
Pennsylvania line,) he raised a volunteer company of Rifle- 
men, which was composed principally either of Irishmen, of 
the descendants of Irishmen, and of which James Ross was 
elected Captain, James Hamilton, 1st Lieutenant, and Fred- 



Major JAMES HAMILTON, Sr. 



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erick Zubly, 2d Lieutenant. This Company having been 
organized with great dispatch, marched into Massachusetts in 
the spring of 1775, and joined the army at Cambridge. 

These facts are minutely related, because this company was 
one of the first corps which Pennsylvania sent to the assistance 
of her sister Colony, then perilously assailed. It remained 
with the army in the vicinity of Boston, and was distinguished 
for its promptitude and order at the cannonade at Dor- 
chester Heights, where it occupied a post of danger and 
distinction. When the British evacuated Boston, Lieutenant 
Hamilton with his company, marched with the rest of the army 
for New York, and took post at Long Island. Here the 
Pennsylvania volunteers exchanged their rifles for muskets, 
and were attached to one of the battalions of the Line. This 
corps was, however, actively engaged at the battle of Long 
Island, and gallantly participated in all the operations of the 
Grand Army in that vicinity, and on both sides of the Hud- 
son River. The battalion to which it was attached, was in the 
advance at the battle of White Plains. And in all the depress- 
ing and disastrous events which attended the close of the 
campaign of 1776, in General Washington's march through 
New Jersey, Lieut. Hamilton, amidst severe privations and 
sufferings, participated with an heroic fortitude, worthy of a 
young soldier, governed by no other sentiment than a lofty 
attachment to the honor of his country, and the success of 
that cause to which he was willing to devote his life, and all 
that was valuable of life. 

With the returning tide of a better fortune, it was also, 
Lieut. Hamilton's destiny to be present at, and to be gallantly 
engaged in, the operations of General Washington on the 
Delaware. On Christmas Eve of 1776, he crossed that river 
in Lord Sterling's division, and participated in the capture of 
the Hessians, and on the succeeding 3d of January, 1777, he 
commanded a company in the battle of Princeton. A greater 
part of the evening previous to this battle, he passed with the 
gallant and lamented Gen. Mercer, with whom he supped, and 
of this interview he often spoke with touching interest. Of 
the affecting contrast exhibited by the gushing enthusiasm 
and lofty aspirations with which the hero spoke, on that night 
of the august cause in which they were engaged, with his 
disastrous fate in everything, save in the halo which must 
forever hover around his tomb. 

These decisive successes on the part of the Americans, it is 
well known, threw all the southern portion of New Jersey 
into the possession of General Washington. Hamilton, now 



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Captain Hamilton, on an expedition from the main body, was 
attacked by a superior force near the enemy's outposts at Bruns- 
wick, and with a small detachment was captured near that place. 
He was, the next day, taken to the British Headquarters, 
at New York, when the Aid of the British Commander-in- 
Chief, struck with his fine appearance and martial bearing, 
on reporting that an engaging young rebel had been taken, 
received from the Commander-in-Chief orders to extend to 
him every kindness and courtesy compatible with the usages 
of war. The Adjutant-General, in taking his parol, told him 
the British Commander would do him no greater harm than 
to give him a billet " on as great a rebel as himself." 

After having been ten months a prisoner of war, on Long 
Island, Capt. Hamilton was exchanged. And on joining the 
army, was offered, by the gallant but unfortunate Gen. St. 
Clair, the appointment of Aid-de-Camp, in which capacity he 
served for a few months until he was promoted on the ioth 
December, 1778, to a Majority in the 2d Regiment of the 
Pennslyvania Line. This regiment was commanded by Col. 
Stuart, a highly accomplished and gallant Irishman, and was 
received principally from among the Irish settlers in Pennsyl- 
vania, and was distinguished in many of the most important 
battles of the Revolution, either in the van in the advance, or 
in retreat in covering the rear. 

These brave sons of Erin were not, perhaps, as much dis- 
tinguished in camp for systematic and uniform subordination, 
as they were for their gallantry in action ; for, when brought 
to the steel, they made their valor tell upon the enemy. In 
the brilliant campaign of 178 1, Major Hamilton had the honor, 
by reason of the sickness and consequent absence of Col. 
Stuart, to command the 2d Regiment, which was attached to 
Wayne's memorable brigade, who, with this regiment and a 
detachment of the 1st, formed a junction with the Marquis 
LaFayette, on his retiring across the Rappahanock. 

We regret that the extreme modesty and reserve with 
which Major Hamilton always spoke of his own services, en- 
ables us to present but an imperfect record of the gallantry 
and enterprise which he is known to have exerted in these 
strinng events, which won for him so largely the esteem and 
confidence of his brother soldiers. We have it, however, in 
our power, to v/eave into this narrative an account which we 
have lately received from Col. Aaron Ogden, of the 
New Jersey Line, of an affair during the march of the army, 
in which Major Hamilton displayed the decisive resources of 
an accomplished officer. We prefer, as the happiest and most 



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appropriate medium of communication, using the account 
itself, and employing the very words of this venerable and 
distinguished veteran, who, we are happy to know, yet lives 
among the surviving few " to tell us how much we owe 
them." 

" In the memorable campaign '(says Col. Ogden) in Vir- 
ginia, in 1781, General, the Marquis LaFayette, while com- 
manding there, conceived a design of intercepting Col. Sim- 
coe's celebrated corps of 500 horse then moving down on the 
north side of James River to join the army of Lord Corn- 
wallis then lying at Williamsburg, and for this purpose he 
detailed a sufficient force to reach, if possible, the road on 
which Simcoe was moving, at a certain point, before he should 
arrive there. Although the march was very rapid, neverthe- 
less, Simcoe passed about half an hour before our troops 
reached the designated spot. This detachment, thus sent by 
Gen. LaFayette, was preceded by a legionary corps, consist- 
ing of three companies of foot, (of which, being the eldest 
Captain, I had the honor to command,) 60 horse under the 
command of Major Hughes, the whole being under the com- 
mand of Major William McPherson. This legion was con- 
siderably in advance, and as soon as it was ascertained that 
Simcoe had passed on, the cavalry, with an infantry soldier 
behind each dragoon, pursued and within two miles came in 
sight of the enemy. They were refreshing, on an eminence 
in a large open field. When we had approached sufficiently 
near, the infantry dismounted, and Major McPherson, with 
great gallantry, charged Simcoe's corps, so suddenly, that 
their horses were yet unbridled. It was not long, however, 
before Major McPherson's cavalry were obliged to fall back 
upon his infantry, which maintained their ground and drove 
back the enemy. McPherson became dismounted, and 
Hughes wounded, both put liors de combat. Simcoe was 
drawing up a short distance for a second charge, when Major 
Hamilton came up most opportunely, at the critical moment, 
with a small detachment, and taking the command of the 
whole, with great skill and judgment formed them in a hollow 
square, and gave orders hot to fire, but to receive the horse of 
the enemy on the point of the bayonet. Having reconnoited 
entirely round our square, Col. Simcoe gave up his threatened 
charge, and resumed his march to join Lord Cornwallis, 
then within the distance of four miles. I have always ascribed 
the safety of this body of men under Major Hamilton (of 
whom those under my command were a part) to his skill, in- 
trepidity, and coolness in forming them in an open field, and 



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within a small distance of a very superior number of the best 
forces of the enemy. 

" On the 25th September, of this campaign, the army at 
last rendezvoused at Williamsburg, preparatory to the siege 
at Yorktown, and in this -siege the 2d Regiment, under the 
command of Major Hamilton, in conjunction with the rest of 
Wayne's Brigade, bore a conspicuous part. It was, perhaps, 
in special reference to the command of this gallant veteran 
(whose very daring obtained for him the appellation of ' Mad 
Anthony,') that General Washington issued his memorable 
order at Yorktown, which contains as much of the pith of the 
simple yet sublime in military writing as is any where to be 
found. ' If the enemy (said he) should be tempted to meet 
the army, the General particularly enjoins the troops to place 
their principal reliance on the bayonet, that they may prove 
the vanity of the boast which the British make of their pecu- 
liar prowess in deciding battle with that weapon.' 

" The events of this siege are too well known as matters of 
history to require any notice on the present occasion. It will 
be sufficient to state that on the surrender of Lord Cornwallis 
the 2d Regiment, under Major Hamilton, was one of those 
forming the command of Baron Steuben, which, as a guard 
of honor, took possession of the British redoubts. 

"After the surrender the 2d Regiment was detached to 
reinforce Gen Greene in the South, and Major Hamilton 
marched through Virginia and North Carolina, and joined 
the Southern Fabius as his headquarters at Ashley River. 
In the course of the operations in that vicinity, he was de- 
tached at the head of 300 picked men to support Col. 
Laurens, but on his arrival at Parker's Ferry he heard of the 
death of that gallant officer in his ill fated expedition to 
Combahee. These events bring the war of the Revolution 
nearly to its close and terminated the military services of 
Major Hamilton, with the exception of an attempt which he 
made to surprise Col. Craig's post on John's Island, near the 
Church Flats, which failed alone from the desertion of his 
guide and the darkness of the night." 

From this narrative it will be seen that Major Hamilton 
was present when the first gun was fired at the heights of 
Dorchester; that he was in most of the subsequent important 
battles, and that he was in one of the last, if not the very last, 
military enterprize of the glorious struggle. 

At the disbanding of the army he became a citizen of South 
Carolina, and was united in marriage to a lady of the same 
State, a daughter of Thomas Lynch, Sr., one of the three 



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Representatives that South Carolina sent to the first Colonial 
Congress which met after the passage of the Stamp Act at 
Annapolis ; this lady was likewise the sister of Thomas 
Lynch, Jr., one of the signers of the Declaration of In- 
dependence. 

The private events of a life which was marked by a tran- 
quility and repose in perfect keeping with the modesty of 
Major Hamilton's character, the Committee considered not 
strictly within their province, but they are quite sure they 
would perform their duty in a manner entirely unsatisfactory 
to a Society in which Major Hamilton was held in such high 
esteem, if they said nothing of those virtues which caused him 
to be loved wherever he was known. 

As an officer, he was active, vigilant and brave to a degree 
of constitutional coolness which gave to his valor the appear- 
ance of instinct, as well as the aspect of a chivalrous senti- 
ment. , He was a great and decided favorite with all the 
general officers under whom he served. The fault they ever 
found with him was not when he met the enemy, but in camp 
with his own troops, towards whom his goodness of heart 
revolted against the application of a severe and unrelenting 
discipline. His old commander, Gen. Wayne, whose advance 
he commanded on many occasions, and who cherished for 
him a friendship and affection amounting to the highest pitch 
of personal and military attachment, used to say of him that 
he spared every man in his command but himself, and if he 
would only make those under him do their duty as he 
did his own, he would be the best officer of his rank in the 
service. 

Your Committee are aware that these are at best but im- 
perfect details of patriotic and valuable services. They 
belong to a class of public recollections, they fear, that are fast 
fading away ; but if even these few facts regarding one of that 
band who fought to make our country what she is, are 
rescued from oblivion, their labors have been compensated, if 
in no other way, at least as serving as an occasion for recall- 
ing to our memories and perpetuating on our records the 
portrait of a gallant and esteemed soldier, a man devoid of all 
selfishness and vanity, " without one drop of gall in his whole 
constitution," who, with a heart overflowing with human 
kindness, knew no fear, except the fear of offending his God, 
and who lived, we believe, without having made, or who at 
least died without deserving to make, a single enemy. The 
beautiful picture which Sterne has drawn of the benevolence 
and sensibility of his hero has never, to the honor of human 



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nature, been a mere fiction. The individual whose virtues we 
have attempted to commemorate, might have sat as the 
original (for those qualities at least) of that fine impersonation 
of all that is delightful in the character of an old soldier, 
whose touching tenderness of heart adds fresh grace to his 
steady and unfaltering valor. 

The end of our venerable friend comported with the se- 
renity ot his whole life. On the night of the 26th of Novem- 
ber, 1833, in his 84th year, he yielded up his spirit and died 
with the composure of a veteran, 

" * * * Taking his rest 
With his martial cloak around him," 

with a smile on his countenance, the mild yet determined 
cast of which death seemed rather to touch with additional 
calmness than to impair. 

By the Cincinnati Society both his fraternal and parental 
intercourse will be long remembered. He has gone, how- 
ever, to join in a world of peace those compatriots who once 
gave life and dignity to our Society, who presided at our 
councils and graced our festive board — ■" those bravest of the 
brave," whose virtues, whose services, and whose memories it 
is at once the most balmy and sacred office of patriotism to 
honor, cherish and defend. 

Edward R. Laurens, Orator for 4th July, 1835. 



Stewards. 



1835. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ President. 

Capt. RICHARD BO HUN BAKER . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

Dr. J. E. B. FINLEY Secretary. 

CHARLES WARLEY 

BERNARD ELLIOTT 

Standing Committee : 

James Hamilton, Henry W. Perroneau, 

E. B. Lining, Edward R. Laurens, 

Elias Vanderhorst, , Dr. Isaac M. Campbell, 

Dr. William Hall. 



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1836. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ, President. 

Capt. RICHARD BOHUN BAKER. . Vice-President 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

Dr. J. E. B. FINLEY Secretary. 

BARNARD ELLIOTT 1 c . 

HARRIS SIMONS ^Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 

James Hamilton, Henry W. Perroneau, 

E. B. Lining, Edward R. Laurens, 

Elias Vanderhorst, Dr. Isaac M. Campbell, 

Dr. William Hall. 



1837. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ President. 

Capt. RICHARD BOHUN BAKER, . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

Dr. J. E. B. FINLEY Secretary. 

BARNARD ELLIOTT \ c , 

HARRIS SIMONS 

Standing Committee : 

James Hamilton, Hemy W. Peronneau, 

E. B. Lining, Edward R. Laurens, 

Elias Vanderhorst, Dr. Isaac M. Campbell, 

Dr. William Hall. 



1838. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ .... . . President. 

Col. SAMUEL WARREN Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

Dr. J. E. B. FINLEY Secretary. 

BARNARD ELLIOTT . ... 
HARRIS SIMONS 



Stewards. 



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Standing Committee : 



James Hamilton, 
Daniel E. Huger, 
Dr. I. Motte Campbell 



Dr. William Hall. 



Henry A. DeSaussure, 
Henry W. Peronneau, 
John S. Cogdell, 



At a meeting of the Cincinnati Society on the 1 8th Octo- 
ber, 1838, on motion of Mr. J. Harleston Read, Jr., it was 

Resolved, That a Committee of Three be appointed by the 
President to draft resolutions expressive of the deep regret of 
the Society, at the decease of our late fellow-members William 
Mason Smith, Esq., Thomas Pinckney Lowndes, Esq., and 
James Hamilton, Jr., Esq., which being referred, the Com- 
mittee reported as follows : 

Whereas, It has pleased the Almighty to remove from the 
sphere of their usefulness, three valuable members of our 
Society, and that too in the very short period of three months, 
it now becomes our painful, yet grateful task to record the 
recollections of their worth. Endeared to us not only by the 
peculiar feelings arising from our relations as one common 
body ; but further claiming our highest esteem from the 
manly, active, energetic discharge of their duties as private 
citizens, they cling strongly to our memories, and draw forth 
the willing offering of our feelings ; therefore 

Resolved, That in testimony of our regard and esteem for 
their memory, the members wear the usual badge of mourn- 
ing for thirty days, and that we sincerely condole with their 
afflicted families at their untimely deaths. 

Resolved, That these proceedings be published in the papers 
of the city, and that the President of the Society do transmit 
a copy to the families of the deceased. 



1839. 



Dr. WILLIAM READ . 
Col. SAMUEL WARREN 



President. 
Vice-President. 



GEORGE B. REID 
JAMES SIMONS . 



Treasurer. 
Secretary. 



BARNARD ELLIOTT 
HARRIS SIMONS . 




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Standing Committee : 

James Hamilton, Henry A. DeSaussure, 

Daniel E. Huger, Henry W. Peronneau, 

Dr. I. Motte Campbell, John S. Cogdell, 

Dr. William Hall. 

J. Harleston Read, Jr., Orator for 4th July, 1840. 



On 29th March, 1 839, Chancellor Henry W. DeSaussure, 
who had been a participant in the War of the Revolution, 
died. 

At a special meeting of the Cincinnati Society of South 
Carolina, held at Lee's Hotel, Broad Street, on the evening 
of the 4th May, 1839, called by the President to take into 
consideration the propriety of paying some suitable tribute to 
the memories of the late Col, Aaron Ogden, of New Jersey, 
and of the late Chancellor DeSaussure, of South Carolina. 

After a brief statement from the President, of the occasion 
for which they were convened, Gen. Hamilton offered the fol- 
lowing resolutions, Avhich were unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That this Society has heard with deep regret of 
the death" of that gallant soldier of the War of the Revolu- 
tion, the late Col. Aaron Ogden, of New Jersey. 

In his youth the deceased patriot signalized his bravery and 
devotion to his country amidst the severest trials of the 
Revolution, whilst it was his good fortune to be the associate 
of Washington in the glorious campaign which terminated in 
the surrender at Yorktown. In a maturer period of life, as a 
statesman and civilian, he contributed to the formation and 
establishment of those institutions which have given value 
and security to our liberties. 

Be it further Resolved, That in paying this tribute to the 
memory of a wise, virtuous and esteemed patriot of another 
State, we are affectingly called upon to recollect the bereave- 
ment we have sustained among ourselves in the death of the 
venerated and venerable Chancellor DeSaussure, long a val- 
ued member of this Society endeared to us by the recollec- 
tion of his early and youthful Revolutionary services; by the 
talents and signal integrity which he carried with him on the 
Bench which he adorned, and by that bland temper and culti- 



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vated taste which conferred a charm and fascination on his 
social intercourse with us, which can never be forgotten. 
Himself, an ornament and the associate of the long and ever 
to be revered ornaments of this Society who have gone before 
him, we cherish his memory with mingled admiration and 
esteem. 

Be it further Resolved, That in testimony of our veneration 
and respect for the memory of these deceased patriots, we will 
wear crape on the left arm for thirty days. 

Be it lastly Resolved, That the President be requested to for- 
ward a copy of these resolutions to the relatives of our de- 
ceased friends. 

// zvas also further Resolved, That the foregoing be pub- 
lished in the papers of the city. 



1840. 



Dr. WILLIAM READ . 
Col. SAMUEL WARREN 
GEORGE B. REID . . . 
JAMES SIMONS . . . . 



President. 
Vice-President. 



Treasurer. 
Secretary. 



BARNARD ELLIOTT 
Dr. WM. G. RAMSAY 




Standing Committee : 



James Hamilton, 
Daniel E. Huger, 
Henry A. DeSaussure, 



Henry W. Peronneau, 
John S. Cogdell, 
Dr. Wni. Hall. 



1841. 



Dr. WILLIAM READ 



President. 
Vice-President. 



GEORGE B. REID . 
JAMES SIMONS . . 
BARNARD ELLIOTT 
Dr. WM. G. RAMSAY 




Treasurer. 
Secretary. 



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Standing Committee : 



1842. 

Dr. WM. READ President. 

Gen. JAMES HAMILTON Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS Secretary. 

BARNARD ELLIOTT \ c , , 

Dr. WM. G. RAMSAY j ^ Uwaras - 

Standing Committee : 

Dr. I. Motte Campbell, John S. Cogdell, 

Henry A. DeSaussure, Dr, Wm. Hall, 

Henry W. Peronneau, Geo. W.' Egleston, 

Edward R. Laurens. 



1843. 



Dr. WILLIAM READ President. 

Gen. JAMES HAMILTON Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS Secretary. 

Dr. WM. G. RAMSAY j 



Dr. HAIG .Stewards. 



Standing Committee : 

Dr. I. Motte Campbell, John S. Cogdell, 

Henry A. DeSaussure, Dr. Wm. Hall, 

Henry W. Peronneau, Geo. W. Egleston, 

Edward R. Laurens. 



Dr. Wm. G. Ramsay, Orator for 4th July, 1844. 
6 



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1844. 

Dr. WILLIAM READ President. 

Gen. JAMES HAMILTON Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS Secretary. 

j- Stewards. 



Standing Committee : 



• 

On 2ist April, 1845, Dr. William Read, President, died. 

This venerable gentleman was the last of the soldiers of the 
war of the Revolution, who presided over the Society, and at 
the time of his death, was the only member of the Society 
living, who had been an actor in that struggle to commem- 
orate which the Society had been instituted. 

At a meeting of the Cincinnati, held at the residence of Dr. 
I. M. Campbell, Broad Street, at ten o'clock, 22d April, 1845, 
the following Preamble and Resolutions were presented by 
Mr. H. A. DeSaussure, and unanimously adopted : 

The mournful occasion which convenes us, is to pay a 
tribute of respect to the memory of the venerable and vener- 
ated Dr. William Read, the President of the State Society of 
the Cincinnati of South Carolina, who, on Monday last, de- 
parted this life at the advanced age of ninety-one years. In 
recording the death of this virtuous, high-minded patriot, who 
manifested his courage and devotion to his country during 
the privations and trials of the Revolutionary war, our admi- 
ration for his public services is blended with deep regrets for 
the bereavement we have sustained in the loss of our beloved 
President. This country honored him while living ; his vir- 
tues and services entitle his memory to the gratitude of 
posterity. 

Deeply imbued with the principles of independence which 
animated the minds of his countrymen in 1776, he joined the 
American Army in New Jersey, at an early age, and served 



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as a volunteer in the hard contested battle field of Monmouth. 
From that period to 1780, he served in the army in Jersey, 
under the immediate eye of General Washington, in the sta- 
tion of Deputy Surgeon-General, with the assimilated rank 
of Lieutenant-Colonel, and attracted the personal regards, and 
won the approbations of the Father of his Country, by his 
active energy and zealous performance of duty in her service. 
Soon after, he was ordered to join the Southern Army under 
Gates, at Camden, and subsequently under the enterprising 
Gen. Greene, participated in all the perils, privations and gal- 
lant exploits of the army to the close of the Revolutionary 
War. His services in the army were not confined to his pro- 
fessional duties, but often was he found in the battle field, 
wielding his sword in his country's defence. And in many a 
bold adventure and daring enterprise, he bore a conspicuous 
part. By the dispensation of Providence, his protracted 
years have borne him into the midst of another generation, 
from which his cotemporaries have all departed ; and the pos- 
terity among whom he has lived, have awarded him in ad- 
vance, their grateful admiration, as one of the patriots of a 
preceding age. As far as our knowledge extends, he is the 
last surviving Continental Officer in South Carolina and the 
Revolutionary Army, but one,* and certainly the last origi- 
nal member of this Society. 

In all the domestic relations of life he was exemplary be- 
yond reproach, and without guile. In temper, frank, manly 
and sincere. In deportment, dignified and forbearing. As a 
citizen, public-spirited, incorruptible and conciliatory. As 
the presiding officer of this Society, his zealous devotion to 
its interests and urbanity in the discharge of its duties, to- 
gether with his kind and condescending intercourse with its 
junior members, will cause his memory long to be cherished 
with affectionate remembrance. 

In testimony therefore, of his worth and our profound 
respect — 

Resolved, That this Society, deeply sensible of the irrepar- 
able loss it has sustained in the death of their venerable and 
beloved President, Dr. William Read, the last surviving Con- 
tinental Officer in South Carolina, of the Revolutionary War, 
will long cherish with grateful remembrance, the public ser- 
vices, the private virtues, and the manly and generous 
qualities of their distinguished President. 

*Maj. James Lovell, of Lee's Legion. 



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Resolved, That as a token of their veneration and respect, 
this Society, in a body, will attend his funeral services, and that 
pall bearers from their number be selected to sustain the bier. 

Resolved, That as a further evidence of our respect the 
members of this Society will wear crape on the left arm for 
thirty days. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the 
Hon. J. Harleston Read, the only son of our deceased friend, 
and also published in the daily papers of the city. 



1845. 



Gen. JAMES HAMILTON President. 

Dr. ISAAC MOTTE CAMPBELL . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS Secretary. 

Dr. WILLIAM G. RAMSAY . . . . \ c , 
Dr. GEORGE HAIG f^tewaras. 

Standing- Committee : 

H. A. DeSaussure, Dr. William Hall, 

H. W. Peronneau, G. W. Egleston, 

J. S. Cogdell, E. R. Laurens, 
Harris Simons. 

Wilmot G. DeSaussure, Orator for 4th July, 1846. 



1846. 

Gen. JAMES HAMILTON President. 

Dr. ISAAC MOTTE CAMPBELL . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS Secretary. 

Dr. WILLIAM G. RAMSAY . . . 1 c , 
Dr. GEORGE HAIG ^tewaras. 

Standing Committee : 

H. A. DeSaussure, Dr. William Hall, 

H. W. Peronneau, Geo. W. Egleston, 

J. S. Cogdell, E. R. Laurens, 
Harris Simons. 



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1847. 

Gen. JAMES HAMILTON President. 

Dr. ISAAC MOTTE CAMPBELL . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS Secretary. 

Dr. WILLIAM G. RAMSAY . . . 1 ~ 

K. R. HAIG j Stewards. 

Standing- Committee : 

Henry A. DeSaussure, Henry W. Peronneau, 

Dr. William Hall, J. Harleston Read, Sr., 

Edward R. Laurens, Harris Simons, 



Richard W. Cogdell. 
John L. Manning, Orator for 4th July, 1848. 



1848. 

Gen. JAMES HAMILTON . . . 
Dr. ISAAC MOTTE CAMPBELL 

GEORGE B. READ 

LOUIS D. DeSAUSSURE .... 
Dr. WILLIAM G. RAMSAY . . 
Dr. GEORGE HAIG ........ 

Standing Committee : 

Henry A. DeSaussure, J. Harleston Read, Sr., 

Henry W. Peronneau, Harris Simons, 

Robert B. Gilchrist, Dr. William Hall, 

Edward R. Laurens. 

*James Simons, Esq., declined a re-election. 



. . President. 

. . Vice-President. 

. . Treasurer. 

. . Secretary* 

X Stewards. 



1849. 

Gen. JAMES HAMILTON President. 

Hon. J. HARLESTON READ, Sr . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

LOUIS D. DeSAUSSURE Secretary. 

Dr. WILLIAM G. RAMSAY .... 1 c *»,Wc 
Dr. GEORGE HAIG j Stewards. 



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Standing Committee : 

Henry A. DeSaussure, Henry W. Peronneau, 

Dr. William Hall, Edward R. Laurens, 

Harris Simons, Richard W. Cogdell, 

W. Peronneau Finley. 



1850. 

Hon. J. HARLESTON READ .... President* 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID . . ■. Treasurer. 

LOUIS D. DeSAUSSURE Secretary. 

Dr. WM. G. RAMSAY \ c , 

Dr. GEORGE HAIG / * tewaras - 

Standing Committee: 

Henry W. Peronneau, Dr. William Hall, 

Edward R, Laurens, Harris Simons, 

Richard W. Cogdell, W. Peronneau Finley, 

Wilmot G. DeSaussure. 

*Gen. James Hamilton declined a re-election because of 
his absence from the State. 



1851. 



Hon. J. HARLESTON READ .... President. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

LOUIS D. DeSAUSSURE Secretary. 

Dr. WILLIAM G RAMSAY . . 



Dr. GEORGE HAIG 

Standing Committee: 

Henry W. Peronneau, Dr. William Hall, 

Harris Simons, Richard W. Cogdell, 

W. Peronneau Finley. James Simons, 

Wilmot G. DeSaussure. 



Robert C. Gilchrist, Orator for 4th July, 1852. 



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1852. 



Hon. J. HARLESTON READ 
HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE . . 

GEORGE B. REID 

LOUIS D. DeSAUSSURE . . , 
Dr. WILLIAM G. RAMSAY 
Dr. GEORGE HAIG .... 



. President. 
. Vice-President. 
. Treasurer. 
. Secretary. 

j- Stewards. 



Standing Committee 



Henry W. Peronneau, 

James Simons, 

W. Peronneau Finley, 

Wilmot G 



Dr. William Hall, 
Richard W. Cogdell 
Harris Simons, 
DeSaussure. 



1853. 

Hon. J. HARLESTON READ . 
HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE . . 

GEORGE B. REID 

LOUIS D. DeSAUSSURE . . . 

Dr. GEORGE HAIG 

JOHN B. DeSAUSSURE . . . 

Standing Committee : 

Henry W. Peronneau, Dr. William Hall, 

James Simons, Richard W. Cogdell 

W. Peronneau Finley, Harris Simons, 
Wilmot G. DeSaussure. 

David Ramsay, Orator for 4th July, 1854. 



. . . President. 

Vice-President. 
Treasurer. 
Secretary. 

Stewards. 



1854. 

Hon. J. HARLESTON READ . . . President. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

LOUIS D. DeSAUSSURE Secretary. 

Dr. GEORGE HAIG \ s d$ 

JOHN B. DeSAUSSURE J ^ tewaras - 



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Standing Committee: 

Henry W. Peronneau, Dr. William Hall, 

James Simons, Richard W. Cogdell, 

W. Peronneau Finley, Harris Simons, 

Wilmot G. DeSaussure. 



1855. 

Hon. J. HARLESTON READ 
HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE. , 

GEORGE B. REID 

WILLIAM S. EDWARDS . . 

Dr. GEORGE HAIG 

JOHN B. DeSAUSSURE. . . 

Standing Committee : 

Henry W, Peronneau, Dr. William Hall, 

James Simons, Richard W. Cogdell, 

W. Peronneau Finley, Harris Simons, 

Wilmot G. DeSaussure. 

Thomas F. Drayton, Orator for 4th July, 1856. 

* Mr. Louis D. DeSaussure declined a re-election. 



1856. 

Hon. T. HARLESTON READ 
HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE . 

GEORGE B. REID 

WILLIAM H PERONNEAU . 

Dr. GEORGE HAIG 

JOHN B. DeSAUSSURE . . . 

Standing Committee : 



President. 

. Vice-President. 

. . . . Treasurer. 
.... Secretary* 

" "1 Stewards. 



President. 

.... Vice-President. 

Treasurer. 

.... Secretary. 

I Stewards. 



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1857. 

Hon. J. HARLESTON READ .... President. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

WILLIAM H. PERONNEAU Secretary. 

Dr. GEORGE HAIG 1 c , 

JOHN B. DeSAUSSURE ^Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 



Charles E. B. Flagg, Orator for 4th July, 1858. 



On 15th December, 1857, Gen. James Hamilton, Ex-Presi- 
dent of the Society, was drowned, by sinking of the steamship 
off , in the Gulf of Mexico. 



1858. 



Hon. J. HARLESTON READ President. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

DAVID RAMSAY Secretary* 

Dr. GEORGE HAIG \ Stewards 

JOHN B. DeSAUSSURE ^oiewaras. 

Standing Committee : 



* William H. Peronneau declined a re-election. 

On 23d May, 1859, Hon. J. Harleston Read, President of 
the Society, died. 



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At a special meeting of the Cincinnati of South Carolina, 
held on 28th May, 1859, the Vice-President of the Society, 
Henry A. DeSaussure, Esq., took the chair, and announced 
officially to the Society the death of their late President, the 
Hon. J. Harleston Read. 

Hon. James Simons, accompanied with some remarks on 
his high and honorable character, his exemplary performance 
of all the social duties of life, and especially of his dignified 
discharge of the official duty of President of this Society, 
offered the following Preamble and Resolutions : 

The name of Read is especially identified with the Cincin- 
nati of South Carolina. At the formation it appeared in the 
roll of the funders at the Cantonment on the Hudson, and in 
the memory of many now present, three generations were for 
a long time represented in this body. Nor is there a mere 
nominal identification — for whether we regard the dead or 
the living, the name of Read will always be associated with 
the patriotic in the past, and the good and virtuous in the 
present. 

The recent event which has convoked this assembly, has, 
at the same time, deprived his family of its head, and the Cin- 
cinnati of their chief. The Hon. J. Harleston Read, Presi- 
dent of the Cincinnati, departed this life on the 23d inst, at 
his residence in this city in the ^2d year of his age. 

Mr. Read was born in Charleston in 1788, and was gradu- 
ated at Princeton College in the year 1806. Inheriting 
wealth, although bred to the Bar and admitted to the profes- 
sion, he did not practice, but he preferred to enjoy the indul- 
gence of the quiet and retired life of a planter, and by his 
sentiments, habits and manners illustrated the character of a 
Carolina gentleman, naturally of an unambitious disposition, 
he did not thrust himself into notoriety, nor affect public 
station ; but at the same time he never shrank from the dis- 
charge of those duties and obligations which devolve on the 
citizen. In early life, he held a commission on the Staff of 
his uncle, Brig.-Gen. Jacob Read ; he served in various local 
offices which he felt it his duty to exercise, and he represented 
the Parish of Prince George Winyah, in the Senate of the State. 

He became a member of the Cincinnati in the year 1809, 
and after the death of his father, the late venerable President, 
Dr. William Read, and the subsequent resignation of General 
Hamilton, he was elected to the succession on the 4th July, 
1850, and was afterwards constantly and unanimously 
re-elected to that office. 



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Deeply interested in the welfare of the Society, he was 
always one of its most zealous members, and endeared him- 
self to the fraternity by the affability of his manners, and the 
amiability of his disposition. His sentiments were high-toned 
and honorable ; his bearing dignified and serene, and his 
whole appearance and conduct indicated the virtue and stabil- 
ity of his character. He discharged the duties of social life 
with exemplary fidelity, and reaped the rich reward of the 
affection and veneration of his children, kinsmen and friends. 

In token of the esteem and respect of the Cincinnati for 
his memory, be it therefore 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati of South Carolina are sin- 
cerely affected by the death of their venerable President, the 
late Hon. John Harleston Read. That whilst they mingle 
their regrets with the grief of his family circle, they are not 
unmindful that he had fulfilled the measure of mortality, and 
they have the comfortable assurance that he had the full frui- 
tion of the reward of a well-spent life, the respect and esteem 
of the whole community. 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati hereby tender to the family 
of their late President, their cordial sympathy on this solemn 
occasion. 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati wear the usual badge of 
mourning on the 4th July next, and for forty days thereafter. 

The Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted, 
and thereupon it was further 

Resolved, That the foregoing Preamble and Resolutions be 
published in the daily papers, and copies of the same be com- 
municated to the family of the deceased. 



1859. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE, Esq. . . . President. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

DAVID RAMSAY Secretary, 

Dr. GEORGE HAIG \ Kte7}jards 

JOHN B. DeSAUSSURE foiecvatas. 



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Standing Committee: 



Harris Simons, 
Dr. William Hall, 



J. Harleston Read, 
W. Peronneau Finley, 
Wilmot G. DeSaussure, 



Evan Edwards 



Thomas F. Drayton. 



Dr. Daniel H. Hamilton, Orator for 4th July, i860. 



At a regular meeting of the Cincinnati of South Carolina, 
held at St. Andrews' Hall, on July 4th, 1859, the following 
Preamble and Resolutions were adopted : 

It is not often that in so small a circle as our Society pre- 
sents, death demands so much tribute in one year. Three of 
our members have been called away, and the habiliments of 
mourning in which we drape our emblems to-day, are the 
external sign of a triple cause for grief. 

Mr. John Hyrne Tucker died on the 5th June, 1859. He 
was the oldest living member of the Cincinnati, of whom he 
had become a member in 1826. He was born in Georgetown, 
S. C, on the 19th July, 1780. His mother was a sister of the 
gallant and patriotic Major Edmund M. Hyrne, and on his 
father's side he inherited the gentle blood of the Tudors. 

Mr. Tucker received his early education at Philadelphia, 
and then went to Brown University, where he graduated. He 
returned to South Carolina in 1801. He was not bred to any 
profession, but engaged in the pursuit of agriculture on Pee 
Dee and Waccamaw, and devoted his long life to this honora - 
ble avocation, and by his assiduity and judgment added largely 
to his fortunes. 

Mr. Tucker's sphere was entirely with the domestic circle. 
He was devoted to his family ; set an example of honor and 
piety to his sons; was hospitable to his friends; kind and 
patriarchal to his servants ; and particularly jealous of their 
protection from all injury or wrong. One of the leading fea- 
tures of his character, so to speak, was his inherent sense of 
religion. He had a profound conviction of his dependence 
on the Almighty disposer of all things ; it pervaded all his 
thoughts and all his professions ; and the serenity of his last 
moments proved beyond all doubt, that he died as he lived — 
" in the confidence of a certain faith in the comfort of a rea- 



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sonable, religious, and holy hope, in favor with God, and per- 
fect charity with the world." 

Resolved, That we tender our sympathy to the family of 
our late venerable brother, John H. Tucker, and beg to offer 
for their acceptance this tribute of respect for his memory. 

Resolved, That the Preamble and these Resolutions be 
recorded on the journal of the Cincinnati. 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati wear the usual badge of 
mourning for thirty days. 



1860. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE President. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

j. e. Mcpherson Washington. . secretary * 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ c , , . 

CHARLES L. EDWARDS. . . . ]^ tewaras - 

Standing Committee: 

Harris Simons, J. Harleston Read, 

Dr. William Hall, W. Peronneau Finley, 

Wilmot G. DeSaussure, Evan Edwards, 

Thomas J. Drayton. 

*Mr. David Ramsay declined a re-election. 



1861. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE. . . . . . President. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr Secretary* 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ Stewards 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON >ztewaras. 



*Mr. J. E. McPherson Washington having joined the Con- 
federate Army declined a re-election. 



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Standing Committee : 

Harris Simons, J. Harleston Read, 

Dr. William Hall, . W. Peronneau Finley, 

Wilmot G. DeSaussure, Evan Edwards, 

Thomas F. Drayton. 



1862. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE, Esq . . . President. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr Secretary. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ c . , 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON ^tewaras. 



Standing Committee : 

Harris Simons, Dr. William Hall, 

Wilmot G. DeSaussure, W. Peronneau Finley, 

J. Harleston Read, Evan Edwards, 

Thomas F. Drayton. 

So many members of the Society were serving in the Con- 
federate Army, and absent, that a quorum could not be 
obtained on the Anniversary, and the above officers held over 
under Rule VI. 



1863. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE, Esq . . . President 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr Secretary. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ c . , 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON .... \^ tewards - 



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Standing Committee : 

Harris Simons, Dr. William Hall, 

W. Peronneau Finley, Wilmot G. DeSaussure, 

Evan Edwards, J. Harleston Read, 

Thomas F. Drayton. 



1864. 

HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE, Esq . 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS 

GEORGE B. REID 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr 

S. WRAGG SIMONS 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON .... 

Standing Committee : 

Harris Simons, Dr. William Hall, 

W. Peronneau Finley, Wilmot G. DeSaussure, 

Evan Edwards, J. Harleston Read, 

■ Thomas F. Drayton. 



. . President. 

. . Vice-President. 

. . Treasiirer. 

. . Secretary. 

\ Stewards. 



1865. 



HENRY A. DeSAUSSURE Esq . . . President. 
Hon. JAMES SIMONS ....... Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr. . . Secretary. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ cy„„ Wc 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON .... J * ied}aras - 

Standing Committee : 

Harris Simons, Dr. William Hall, 

W. Peronneau Finley, Wilmot G. DeSaussure, 

Evan Edwards, J. Harleston Read, 

Thomas F. Drayton. 



In consequence of the disorganized condition of the State, 
no meeting could be had on the Anniversary, and the above 
officers held over under Rule VI. 



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Henry A. DcSaussure, Esq., President, died 9th Decem- 
ber, 1865. 

At a meeting of the Cincinnati, held on 16th December 
1865, pursuant to an invitation of the Hon. James Simons 
Vice-President, the following Preamble and Resolutions were 
unanimously adopted : 

The State Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina, have 
assembled to offer a memorial to the memory of their vener- 
able President, Henry A. DeSaussure, Esq. 

Full of years and of honors, he has followed in the path- 
way of the distinguished men who preceded him in the hon- 
orable office he so long held, and he now enjoys in 
communion with them, the eternal rewards of patriotism and 
virtue, which men can neither give nor take away. 

Our late President was born in Charleston, on the 15th 
September, 1788, and at the time of his death had just com- 
pleted his seventy-seventh year. He was the eldest son of 
the distinguished Judge and Chancellor, Henry Wm. DeSaus- 
sure, who might be named [in South Carolina, as Lord 
Nottingham was justly styled in England, "the Father of 
Equity." He early applied himself to the study of that sci- 
ence in which has father was so much honored, and upon 
being called to the Bar, devoted himself with uninterrupted 
zeal, perseverance and industry, to its pursuit and practice. 
He took but little part in politics, and although he at times 
served efficiently in the Legislature of the State, he was too 
much imbued with the spirit of his profession to suffer him- 
self to be abstracted from his absorbing duties, but his polit- 
ical sentiments were necessarily conservative from his 
education, training and habits. 

Few men have enjoyed so much of the consideration, 
esteem and affection of his fellow-citizens, during a life of so 
much activity and so many professional and public engage- 
ments, and the strongest manifestation of these feelings was 
shown by the immense concourse who assembled to witness 
the last sad offices which were rendered to his mortal remains. 
Conspicuous on this occasion were those tender objects of his 
enlightened and parental care, over whose orphan home, 
proudly cherished and adorned by our city to its honor and 
praise, he so long and nobly presided. 

His virtues and affections in private, were in perfect and 
happy unison with the polish and elegance of his manners, 
and his whole walk in life was graced with that piety and 



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veneration for holy things which fill up the measure and ex- 
cellence of a truly good man. He long presided over this 
body in the several stations of President and Vice-President, 
and by his urbanity and courtesy, his dignity and justice, re- 
ceived and enjoyed the love and veneration of both old and 
young. 

In token, therefore, of the consideration of the Cincinnati 
for the memory of their venerable and lamented President — 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati of South Carolina unite with 
their fellow-citizens in offering to the memory of their late 
President, Henry A. DeSaussure, Esq., their veneration, 
esteem and affection, and that they will cherish for themselves 
and impress on their sons the example of virtue, honor and 
religion, which he set before them during the whole of his 
long and useful life. 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati deeply feel, with his family, 
the departure of their honored head and Father, and tender to 
them their cordial and sincere sympathies in their bereavement. 

Resolved, That the foregoing preamble and these resolu- 
tions be recorded on the Minutes of the Society, and that the 
Secretary be instructed to transmit a copy to the family of the 
late President. 



1866. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS President. 

Genl. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE. . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID ... Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS. Jr Secretary. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ ~ , 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON 



Standing Committee 



Harris Simons, 
W. Peronneau Finley, 
Thomas F. Drayton, 



Hopson Pinckney, 



Dr. William Hall, 
J. Harleston Read, 
Evan Edwards, 



At a meeting of the Cincinnati held on 19th October, 1866, 
the following Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 
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Again the sa dduty falls upon the Cincinnati Society to 
record the death of one of its members. 

Harris Simons, born on the 9th of January, 1807, died in 
Charleston on the 21st of August, after a protracted and 
painful illness. Driven from his home by the events of the 
war, he suffered, as did all the refugees, and from such suffer- 
ings drew the seeds of his fatal illness. With health impaired 
by the privations he had undergone, he returned to Charles- 
ton, the place of his nativity and his home, in the early part 
of 1866, and sought by manful exertion a support for his 
family, but his strength was unequal to the struggle. At the 
post of duty he was stricken, and after an illness of four 
months, passed from the toils of life to the rest of eternity. 
Unambitious of public position, his life had been passed in 
the quiet of domestic life and in the exercise of hospitality. 
To him, therefore, can be ascribed no prominent political place. 
But in the home circle he filled a large place. As a gentleman, 
he was courteous, kind, affable; respecting others, he exacted 
respect for himself. Of warm feelings, he drew to himself the 
attachment of many friends, because he felt warmly to them, 
and the members of the Cincinnati will long remember his 
cheerful countenance, his cordial greetings, his courteous de- 
portment, his consideration for his juniors, his uniformly con- 
ciliatory spirit, and his earnest interest in all which concerned 
the interests of the Society. Mourning the death of one whom 
such amiable qualities had endeared to its members, 

Resolved, That in the death of Harris Simons the Cincinnati 
Society has lost a member who was earnestly interested in its 
prosperty, and whose gentle courtesy, consideration for others, 
conciliatory deportment and warmheartedness endeared him 
to its members. 

Resolved, That a page upon the journal be inscribed with 
his name and the record of his death. 

Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and resolutions be 
sent to the widow of the deceased, with the assurance of the 
respectful sympathy of the Society in the death of the devoted 
husband, father and friend. 

Resolved, That this preamble and resolutions be published 
in the city daily papers. 

The following Preamble and Resolutions were also unani- 
mously adopted : 

Since the last meeting of this Society sad events have taken 
place, which fill us with gloom and sorrow. We have just 



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heard one sad memorial, and we are now called upon to offer 
another tribute to departed worth. In the moment of an 
hour, without the usual warning of approaching dissolution, 
in' the full possession of manly vigor and health, mental and 
physical, our friend and comrade John Harleston Read has 
been torn from us by the hand of death. He died suddenly, 
in this city, on the ist of September, ultimo., while passing 
through on his way to Columbia to attend an extra session of 
the General Assembly. Mr. Read was in every way identified 
with the Cincinnati. His grandfather, the venerable William 
Read, one of the patriarchs of the Revolution of 1776, was a 
former President of this body, and was succeeded by our 
friend's father, the late Honorable John Harleston Read, and 
it has not been uncommon to see four generations of this 
family at our annual celebrations. Mr. Read was warmly 
interested in all that concerned the institution, and felt a deep 
solicitude in its preservation and prosperity, which he 
promptly promoted on all occasions. He was universally 
beloved and esteemed by the members of this body, but this 
consideration was not confined to the Society. It has fallen 
to the lot of few men to possess and enjoy so much of the 
confidence and regard of his fellow-citizens. In private life 
the uprightness of his character, the refinement of his man- 
ners, and the warmth of his affections endeared him to his 
family, his friends and his associates. In public affairs his 
integrity, intelligence and conscientious sense of duty re- 
tained him as a representative for his parish in the legislature 
for over twenty consecutive years, with general acceptance, 
and he was especially beloved and esteemed in that body. 
When the war broke out, although he was past the middle of 
life, he sought a commission in the army and served to the 
end of the war, leaving his family and his home, with all its 
comforts, wealth and luxuries, for the hard service of the 
soldier, and underwent the dangers, hardships and privations 
of the camp, with the cheerfulness and spirit of the young- 
est and most patriotic. His loss has been acknowledged 
and mourned over by the entire community, and his mel- 
ancholy death is deplored by the State at large. Be it 
therefore 

Resolved, That in the death of the late John Harleston 
Read, the Cincinnati have lost a valued and much beloved 
member, of whose private and public character they have 
every reason to be justly proud. 

Resolved, That we will cherish, with the warmest feelings, 
the memory of our departed friend, and deplore the sad event 



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which has forever deprived us of the friendship and associa- 
tion of one, whose integrity of character and elevation of sen- 
timent dignified and adorned our Society. 

Resolved, That we deeply sympathise with his afflicted 
family, and that, in token of our sentiments, a copy of this 
Preamble and these Resolutions be transmitted to them. 

Resolved, That a page upon the journal be inscribed with 
his name, and the record of his death. 

Resolved. That this Preamble and these Resolutions be 
published in the City daily papers. 



1867. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS .... 
Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE 

GEORGE B. REID 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr 

S. WRAGG SIMONS 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON . . 

Standing Committee : 

W. Peronneau Finley, Thomas F. Drayton, 

Evan ' Edwards, Hopson Pinckney, 

Dr. H. VV. DeSaussure, B. H. Read, 

R. Q. Pinckney. 



At a meeting of the Cincinnati, held 3d July, 1867, the fol- 
lowing Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Since the last meeting of the Cincinnati, our number has 
been diminished by the demise of another member. Ogden 
Hammond, Esq., departed this life at his plantation, near 
Charleston, in the seventieth year of his age, after a short 
illness. 

Mr. Hammond was a native of New York, and came to 
this State in early life, intermarried with a lady of Charles- 
ton, and connected himself with the State Society of South 
Carolina, soon after his arrival, being entitled to membership 
in right of his father, who was an officer in the Continental 
Army of the New York Line, and lived in- South Carolina 



. . President. 

. . Vice-President. 

. . Treasurer. 

. . Secretary. 

X Stewards. 



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ever since. He had the advantage of considerable means in 
the property peculiar to the South, but these were destroyed 
by the events of the war. Reduced from affluence to narrow 
circumstances, he bore his reverses with manhood and forti- 
tude, although, in the evening of his days, he was deprived 
of those luxuries and comforts to which he had been accus- 
tomed in his youth and manhood, and the beginning of his 
age. 

Mr. Hammond was thoroughly educated, and had traveled 
much, was full of information, and bore himself with the 
manners and dignity of a refined and cultivated gentleman. 
He was possed of a peculiar sensibility to all the amenities 
and humanities of life, and added to other graces a very gen- 
erous and unstinting hospitality. Of a retiring and reserved 
disposition, he passed his time in quietude and comparative 
seclusion, and his life was unruffled by the agitations of poli- 
tics or the excitements of ambition. He was devoted to the 
welfare of this Society, and took the liveliest interest in its 
prosperity and success. 

Resolved, That in the death of Ogden Hammond, Esquire, 
the Society mourns the loss of a valued member and a good 
citizen. 

Resolved, That we will cherish his memory as one sprung 
from the purer days of the Republic. 

Resolved, That we sincerely sympathise with his daughter 
in whom centered so peculiarly all the affections of his 
nature, and who, herself, was so remarkable an example of 
filial piety. 

Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing Preamble and Res- 
olutions be transmitted to her, in token of our condolence. 

At a meeting of the Cincinnati, held 22d February, 1868, 
the following Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 

Since the last anniversary meeting of the South Carolina 
Society of the Cincinnati, another of its members has died. 
Having passed the age of three score and ten years, and filled 
the measure of a long life, Dr. Wm. Hall, was gathered to 
his fathers on the 4th September, 1867. So quiet and unob- 
trusive was his life that little was known of him outside of 
his domestic circle. Within that circle, he earnestly devoted 
himself to the culture of his children, and, in such occupa- 
tion, and in literary pursuits, he chiefly passed his days. A 



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descendant of Capt. Thomas Hall of the South Carolina Line, 
he was admitted a member of this Society on 4th July, 18 16, 
and the elder members of the Society will remember his 
often attendance at its meetings. 

Resolved, That in the death of Dr. William Hall, the South 
Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, mourns the death of one 
of its oldest members. 

Resolved, That a blank page upon the minutes of the So- 
ciety be inscribed with the name of the deceased member. 

Resolved, That a copy of this Preamble and Resolutions 
be transmitted to his family, with the assurances of the re- 
spectful sympathy of the Society at their loss. 



1868. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS ..... 
Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE 

GEORGE B. REID 

JAMES SIMONS, Jk 

S. WRAGG SIMONS 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON .... 

Standing Committee : 

W. Peronneau Finley, Thomas F. Drayton, 

Evan Edwards, Hopson Pinckney, 

Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, B. H. Read, 

R. Q. Pinckney. 

At the meeting 3d July, 1868, the Secretary reported that 
he had recovered the Society s Plate of Certificate of Mem- 
bership. 

At the meeting 22d February, 1868, the President reported 
that he had received of Col. James W. Sevier, of Boston, Vice- 
President General, a letter, in which he enclosed one hundred 
dollars to be applied by the President to such charitable ob- 
jects as he may select. 



. . . President. 

. . . Vice-President. 

. . . Treasurer. 

. . . Secretary. 

^Stewards. 



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1869. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS President. 

Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES Assistant Treasurer, 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr., Secretary. 

Stewards. 



S. WRAGG SIMONS. . . \ 



THOMAS R. EGLESTON /' 

Standing Committee . 



Evan Edwards, Thomas F. Drayton, 

Hopson Pinckney, Dr. H, W. DeSaussure, 

B. H. Read, R. Q. Pinckney, 

W. J. Lesesne. 

At the meeting, 19th October, 1868, a committee was ap^ 
pointed to report upon the death of ex-President F. Pierce. 



1870. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS President. 

Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE . . .Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES Assistant Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr Secretary. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ c , 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON / ^ tewarcts - 

Standing Committee ; 

Evan Edward, Hopson Pinckney, 

Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, B. H. Read, 

R. O. Pinckney, W. J. Lesesne, 

H. M. Haig. 

At the meeting, 4th July, 1870, the Committee reported a 
Preamble and Resolutions relative to the death ot ex-Presi- 
dent Franklin Pierce, and expressing to the State Society of 
the Cincinnati of Massachusetts, of which he had been a mem- 
ber, their sympathies. The Preamble and Resolutions were 
adopted, and ordered to be transmitted. 



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1871. 

Hon. TAMES SIMONS President. 

Gen. WILMOTG. DeSAUSSURE . . .Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES Assistant Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONDS, Jr Secretary. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ ' 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON ^stewards. 

Standing Committee : 

Evan Edwards, Hopson Pinckney, 

Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, B. H. Read, 

R. Q. Pinckney, W. J. Lesesne, 

H. M. Haig. 

At the meeting, 4th July, 1 87 1 , a committee was" appointed 
to report upon the death of Col. James W. Sevier, of Boston, 
Vice-President General. 

At the meeting, 19th October, 187 1, the Committee on the 
death of Col. Sevier, were ordered to transmit copies of their 
report, so soon as prepared, to the General Society, and to 
the Massachusetts Society. 



1872. 



Hon. JAMES SIMONS President. 

Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE . . . Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES Assistant Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr Secretary. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS 1 c , , 

THOMAS R. EGLESTON / * tewaras - 

Standing Committee : 

Evan Edwards, Hopson Pinckney, 

Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, B. H. Read, 

R. Q. Pinckrtey, W. J. Lesesne, 

M. H. Haig. 



At the meeting, 4th July, 1872, the following Preamble and 
Resolutions were unanimously adopted : 



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The Cincinnati Society of South Carolina have heard with 
pleasure and pride, that at the recent Triennial Session of the 
Society General of the Cincinnati, that the Hon. James Simons, 
the President of the State Society, had been elected Vice- 
President General of the General Society ; therefore 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati Society of South Carolina 
acknowledge with much pride and pleasure the compliment 
paid to it, .by the elevation to so distinguished a position, of 
its greatly respected President, the Hon. James Simons. 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati Society of South Carolina 
cordially express to the Hon. James Simons its greatly re- 
spected President, the pleasure and pride with which it has 
heard of his elevation to the office of Vice-President General 
of the General Society. 

Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to send a copy 
of these resolutions to the Society General, and also to the 
Hon. James Simons. 

At the meeting, 22d February, 1873, a committee was ap- 
pointed to communicate with Hon. Hamilton Fish, President 
General, and to tender to him a reception by the Cincinnati, 
on his visit to Charleston, which it was understood that he 
proposed, shortly, to make. 

At the meeting, 19th April, 1873, the committee reported 
their letter to Hon. Hamilton Fish, President General, and his 
reply, in which he acknowledged, with thanks, the civility of 
the Cincinnati, but stated that the proposed visit had been 
given up. 



Gen. WILMOT G DeSAUSSURE . . . Vice-President. 



1873. 



Hon. JAMES SIMONS 



President. 



JAMES SIMONS, Jr . 
S. WRAGG SIMONS 
MAHAM HAIG . . . 



GEORGE B. REID 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES 



Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 
Secretary. 




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Standing Committee : 



Evan Edwards, 

Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, 

R. Q. Pinckney, 



Hopson Pincknev, 
B. H. Read, 
W. J. Lesesne, 



M. H. Haig. 



At the meeting, 4th July, 1873, resolutions were passed ex- 
pressing the sympathies of the Cincinnati of South Carolina, 
with the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, and also with the Gen- 
eral Society, upon the death of Dr. Thomas McEuen, Secre- 
tary General, and copies were ordered to be transmitted to 
those societies. 

At the meeting, 22d February, 1874, it was reported to the 
Society, that certificates had been given as follows : To Mr. 
F. Barbour Ogden, Assistant Secretary General, that Mr. 
Ogden Hammond had been a member of the South Carolina 
Society, so as to enable Mr. Alexander H. Hammond, his 
brother, to apply for membership in the New York Society. 
To Mr. Harry M. Morris, that his father, Col. Lewis Morris, 
had been a member of the South Carolina Society, to enable 
him to apply for membership in the New York Society. 



Hon. JAMES SIMONS .:. .President. 

Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE. . . Vice-President. 



1874. 



GEORGE B. REID .... 
T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr 

S. WRAGG SIMONS . . . 
MAHAM HAIG . ... . . 



Treasurer. 

Assistant Treasurer. 
Secretary. 




Standing Committee : 



Evan Edwards, 

Dr. H. W. DeSaussure 

R. Q. Pinckney, 



Hopson Pinckney, 
B. H. Read, 
W. J. Lesesne, 



M. H. Haig. 



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At the meeting, 22d February, 1875, a committee was ap- 
pointed to draw resolutions relative to the death of General 
Tench Tilghman, President of the Maryland Society. , 

At a meeting, 19th April, 1875, the committee reported a 
Preamble and Resolutions relative to the death of Gen. Tench 
Tilghman, President of the Maryland Society, and expressing 
sympathy with that Society. These were adopted, and 
ordered to be sent to the General Society, and also to the 
Maryland Society. 



1875. 



Hon. JAMES SIMONS. President. 

Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE . . .Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES Assistant Treasurer. 

JAMES SIMONS, JR Secretary. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS \ c . , 

MAHAM HAIG ^tewaras. 

Standing Committee : 

Evan Edwards, Hopson Pinckney, 

Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, B. H. Read, 

R. Q. Pinckney, H. M. Haig, 



William L. Campbell. 

At the meeting, 22d February, 1876, the President read a 
correspondence between himself and Gen. Cochrane, Chair- 
man of a Committee of the New York Society, in relation to 
a reunion of the several societies in Philadelphia, during the 
coming summer. 

At the meeting, 19th April, 1876, the President reported to 
the Society, that the New Jersey Society had presented to this 
Society, a copy of its Book of 1876. 

The Standing Committee reported upon the proposed re- 
union in Philadelphia, during the coming summer. 

Also, upon the application of Mr. E. D. McCullough, of 
Pennsylvania, for election as a member of the South Carolina 
Society, he deriving his right of membership from a former 



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member of that Society, by the rules of which he would be 
entitled to admission. By the rules of the Pennsylvania So- 
ciety, he could not be admitted on that right, but such Socie- 
ty desired his admission to the South Carolina Society, so 
that through it, he could be admitted to the Pennsylvania So- 
ciety. The committee reported that they knew of no rule 
which prevented a citizen of another State from being ad- 
mitted into the South Carolina Society. And that as the 
Pennsylvania Society desired it, they recommended a refer- 
ence to a committee to ascertain the right of Mr. McCullough 
by descent. 

The Society elected Mr. E. D. McCullough as a member. 

At a special meeting, 21st June, 1876, the invitation of the 
Palmetto Guard, for the Society to take part in that com- 
pany's celebration of the Centennial of the Battle of Fort 
Moultrie, on 28th June, was accepted. 

At the meeting, 3d July, 1876, a report was made by the 
Special Committee, in relation to the Centennial re-union in 
Philadelphia, on 18th and 19th October next. 



Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE .... Vice-President. 

GEORGE B. REID Treasurer. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES . . ..... Assistant Treasurer. 



1876. 



Hon. JAMES SIMONS 



President. 



JAMES SIMONS, Jr 
S. WRAGG SIMONS. 
MAHAM HAIG . . 




Secretary. 



Standing Committee : 



Evan Edwards, 
Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, 
R. Q. Pinckney, 



Hopson Pinckney, 
B. H. Read, 
H. M. Haig, 



W. L. Campbell. 



At the meeting, 22d February, 1877, Mr. T. Pinckney 
Lowndes was elected Treasurer, in the place of Mr. George 
B. Reid, deceased. 



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1877. 



Hon. JAMES SIMONS President. 

Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE . . Vice-President. 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr Secretary. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES Treasurer. 

S. WRAGG SIMONS 1 , 

MAHAM HAIG ^Stewards. 

Standing Committee : 

Evan Edwards, Hopson Pinckney, 

Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, B. H. Read, 

R. Q. Pinckney, H. M. Haig, 

W. L. Campbell. 



At the meeting, 19th October, 1877, the following Pream- 
ble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

At a meeting of the Society, held this day year, it was an- 
nounced that its oldest member and officer, had been sorely 
smitten with disease, and was very ill. A few hours after- 
wards, the members were called to pay him the just tribute of 
respect, of attending his funeral services. 

George De Burt Reid was born in Charleston, S. C, on 4th 
August, 1793, and died in the city of his nativity on the night 
of October 19th, 1876, with the crown of over four score years 
resting on his head. During such long life he had dwelt in 
this community, and by integrity and faithful discharge of 
duties, had earned for himself the well merited respect and 
confidence of his fellow-citizens. Beginning his business life 
at a very early age, as a clerk with John Robertson, Navy 
Agent in Charleston for the United States ; at the age of sev- 
enteen years he was elected out door clerk of the Bank of 
South Carolina, and continued as one of its officers, until, by 
the disasters of the late war, such bank was obliged to suc- 
cumb to its misfortunes. From the position of out door clerk, 
he rose by steady promotion through the various offices, un- 
til he attained to that of President, which he filled for many 
years to the entire satisfaction of the Stockholders. This 
position he held when the Bank was obliged to close its doors, 
and deep grief fell upon him at seeing the institution in which 
his life had been spent, at last, go down under the storm of 
war. 



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The eldest son of Lieutenant George Reid of the Pennsyl- 
vania Line, and Ann Hardy his wife, he was by birth entitled 
to admission as a member of the Cincinnati Society. Shortly 
after attaining majority, he availed himself of the privilege to 
which he was entitled, and at the time of his death had been a 
member for nearly three score years. Elected Treasurer of the 
Society in the year 182-, nearly a half century of his life was 
given to the discharge of the duties of such office. Attentive, 
careful, methodical, affable, he had gained for himself the 
good will and regard of his fellow members. When increas- 
ing years came upon him, and he was obliged to be tem- 
porarily absent from the city, he conscientiously desired that 
a younger man should be put in his place, but his fellow mem- 
bers were unwilling to part with one who had so long and 
faithfully served the Society, and yielding to their wiihes he 
continued to hold the office, although its duties were per- 
formed by Mr. T. Pinckney Lowndes until his death. 

Few were more consistently steady in attendance upon the 
meetings. None felt a deeper interest in all which apper- 
tained to the Society : 

Resolved, That the Cincinnati Society of South Carolina 
mourns, in the death of George De Burt Reid, the loss of a 
faithful and efficient officer, a zealous member, a con- 
scientious man. 

Resolved, That a page in the journals be inscribed with his 
name, the dates of his admission, tenure of office, and death. 

Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to communicate 
a copy of this Preamble and Resolutions to his family. 



1878. 

Hon. JAMES SIMONS President. 

Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE. . . Vice-President. 

JAMES SIMONS, Jr Secretary. 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES Treasurer. 

T. WRAGG SIMONS ...... 

MAHAM HAIG 



Stezvards. 



Standing Committee : 

Evan Edwards, Hopson Pinckney, 

■Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, B. H. Read, 

R. Q. Pinckney, M. H. Haig, 

W. L. Campbell. 



Ill 



At the meeting, 4th Jul}-, 1878, communications from the 
Rhode Island Society were read, relative to the reorganization 
of that Society. And it was 

Resolved, That the State Society of the Cincinnati have 
heard with pleasure of the reorganization of the State Society 
of the Cincinnati, of Rhode Island, and hope that at the next 
meeting of the General Society of the Cincinnati, the Rhode 
Island Society will be in full communion with the General 
Society. 



At the meeting, 19th October, 1878, a communication from 
the Rhode Island Society was received, and ordered to be 
entered on the Journal. 



The Hon. James Simons, President, died 26th April, 1879. 
The Cincinnati, as a Society, attended his funeral services, 
and appointed some of its members to act as pall-bearers. 



At a Special Meeting of the State Society of the Cincinnati 
of South Carolina, held on 29th April, 1879, the following 
Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

The State Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina, are 
assembled to pay a tribute of respect and affection to the 
memory of the Hon. James Simons, late President. 

Our President was endeared to the members of the Society 
by no ordinary ties of affectionate regard, and not only 
through the love which his brother members entertained for 
him, but from his integrity, manly character and dignified 
deportment, earned and commanded their respect and pride. 

It was characteristic of him thus to gain the cordial regard 
of those with whom he was associated, and to preserve and 
maintain their respect. 

Gen. Simons was not an ordinary man. From earliest youth, 
until the close of life, his standards were high, his ambitions 
laudable, and his conscientiousness in preparing himself for 
the position which he aspired to fill, remarkable. Studious 
and diligent as a boy, the same features marked all the years 
of his manhood- At school, at college, upon his admission 
to the Bar, he stood first among his fellow r students, bearing 
off in all these competitions well deserved laurels, earned by 



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most systematic and careful preparation. At the Bar, none 
surpassed him in his careful attention to every matter confided 
to his care, and few equalled him in his knowledge of the 
principles of pleading and practice. In the midst of the 
drudgery of his profession, and with his office filled with 
work, he yet systematically devoted a part of his time to hard 
study, not only of those subjects connected with his daily 
avocations, but to such as keep him current with the sciences 
and literature of'the day. He stood, therefore, as one of the 
leaders of the Bar at which he practiced, and as one well pre- 
pared to consult and advise with in the matters in which the 
community was interested. 

For twelve years he filled the honorable position of Speaker 
of the House of Representatives of South Carolina. This 
office had, at different times, been filled by men eminent in 
the annals of the State for learning, character and dignity. In 
the discharge of the duties of Speaker, he has never been sur- 
passed. With the immediate rules by which the House was 
to be governed, he was so intimately acquainted, as never to 
falter or hesitate in a prompt and proper application of such 
rules. But his conscientiousness in preparing himself for the 
position he desired to fill, was eminently shewn in the 
thorough knowledge he had acquired of the principles of par- 
liamentary law, before he became a candidate for this position. 
No decision or ruling made by him while Speaker was ever 
reversed. His learning upon these principles was so well 
known, as to lead to frequent references to him from other 
presiding officers. It was not, however, by his knowledge of 
parliamentary practice alone that he earned his high distinc- 
tion as a peer of the eminent men who preceded him. His 
dignified deportment, and respectful, courteous and kindly 
consideration for the members over whom he presided, at- 
tracted the admiration of all who visited the Hall in which he 
sat. The youngest and most inexperienced Legislator at once 
appreciated that his errors or mistakes would be glossed and 
corrected in such manner as was most considerate and 
kindly. 

Admitted to membership in the State Society of the Cin- 
cinnati of South Carolina about 1835, in representation of his 
father, the late James Simons, Esq., who as a cornet under Col. 
William Washington, had been twice wounded at the battle 
of Eutaw Springs, our late President at once evinced a deep 
interest in its affairs. Such interest never flagged, and the 
last business or official act of his life was on 19th April, 1879, 
when at the quarterly meeting in commemoration of the bat- 



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tie of Lexington, he presided over its deliberations. On 4th 
July, 1839, he was elected Secretary, and held the office until 
4th July, 1848, when he declined a re-election. While filling 
this office, with characteristic diligence, he thoroughly indexed 
the volume of proceedings, with full rubrical notes, making 
the journal easy of access and deeply interesting. This inval- 
uable record was destroyed at the burning of Columbia in 
February, 1865. On 4th July, 1859, he was elected Vice- 
President ; and on 4th July, 1866, he was unanimously elected 
President. During his term of office he has never been absent 
from any staled meeting of the Society, unless absent from the 
city, or prevented by illness from attending. By his courte- 
ous, genial, considerate attention to ever} 7 member, including 
the young gentlemen who are permitted to participate in the 
anniversary dinner, he became not merely the President of the 
Society, but the friend of each and every one who attended. 
Well, then, may we say of him, that he possessed our affec- 
tionate regard, and commanded our respect. 

Repeatedly a delegate to the Triennial Meetings of the So- 
ciety General, he had taken such position in that body as to 
be elected Vice-President General on 30th May, 1872. Among 
the distinguished gentlemen who were wont to assemble from 
the Old Thirteen States at these Triennial Meetings, he stood 
among the foremost, and already have the cordial and respect- 
ful sympathies of our sister Societies commenced to be 
expressed. Holding such position, and so honored, the ex- 
pression may well be used, that we also regarded him with 
pride. 

A tedious illness and long protracted ill health, had not 
had the effect of souring his disposition or producing cap- 
tiousness. None who were assembled with him on that last 
act of his official and business life will forget the genial cor- 
diality with which he met his fellow members, nor his kindly 
affectionate, and cheerful good-night. 

He died at an age when men's faculties are usually at the 
prime ; and until stricken with the disease which eventually 
terminated his life, he was in full, vigorous, laborious profes- 
sional life, daily adding to the well earned reputation for 
learning, diligence and faithful discharge of duty. 

Be it Resolved — 

1. That in the death of the Hon. James Simons, the State 
Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina, has lost one of 
its most zealous supporters and members, and one of the most 
efficient and able of officers. 
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2. That by his death the Society has been deprived of a 
President, endeared to each and. every member by acts of per- 
sonal kindness and consideration, and for whom the members 
entertained the highest respect, of whom they were justly 
proud, and for whom they sincerely mourn. 

3. That as Vice-President General, the General Society has 
lost the services of an officer wise and moderate in counsel, 
conciliating in disposition, dignified in deportment. 

4. That a copy of the Preamble and Resolutions be for- 
warded to the President General, with a request that he will 
lay the same before the Society General at its next Triennial 
Meeting. 

5. That copies be forwarded to the Secretary General, with 
a request that a copy be sent to each State Society. 

6. That a copy be forwarded by the Secretary of this meet- 
ing to the Secretary of each of the State Societies, with a 
request that the same be laid before such Societies at their 
next regular meeting. 

7. That a page upon the journals of the Society be inscribed 
with the name of the Hon. James Simons, the dates of his 
birth and death, of his admission, the offices which he held 
and the respective dates, and the office he held in the Society 
General, and its date. 

8. That the respectful and affectionate sympathies of the 
members of this Society be expressed to the widow and fam- 
ily of our deceased President, and the Vice-President and 
Secretary of this meeting be directed to carry out this resolu- 
tion, enclosing therewith a copy of the foregoing Preamble 
and resolutions. 

9. That during the ensuing year, at each meeting of the 
Society, members will wear crape upon the left arm, and the 
decoration upon crape. 

WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE, 

Vice-President. 

Thomas Pinckney Lowndes, 

Treasurer and Acting Secretary. 



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At the same meeting-, the following telegraphic dispatches 
were read and ordered to be entered on the minutes : 

To James Simons, 

Secretary South Carolina Cincinnati : 

The Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati learn with pro- 
found regret of Vice-President General Simons' decease, and 
tender to the South Carolina Society affectionate sympathy. 



H. E. Turner, 

Secretary Rhode Island Society Cincinnati : 

South Carolina Society Cincinnati appreciates the sympa- 
thies extended to it on the death of its President, the Vice- 
President General. Official notice will be promptly commu- 
nicated to the other Societies. 



Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE . . . President. 
Rev. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY. . . . Vice-President. 



NATHANIEL GREENE, President. 

H. E. TURNER, Secretary. 

A. B. GARDNER, Assistant Secretary. 



WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE, 



Vice-President. 



1879. 



JAMES SIMONS . . . . 
T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES 
S. WRAGG SIMONS. . . . 
MAHAM HAIG 



Secretary. 
Treasurer. 




Standing Committee : 



Evan Edwards, 
Dr. H. W. DeSaussure, 
R. Q. Pinckney, 



Hopson Pinckney, 
B. H. Read, 
H. M. Haig, 



W. L. Campbell. 



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At the meeting 4th July, 1879, the following letter was read 
and ordered to be entered on the minutes : 

General Society of the Cincinnati, \ 
May 3, 1879. / 

The President General announces with deep regret the 
death of the Hon. James Simons of South Carolina, Vice- 
President General of the Society, who died in Charleston on 
the 26th day of April last. 

A gentleman of the highest tone ; a scholar of varied and 
extended reading ; a lawyer of learning and of eloquence ; a 
citizen pure, faithful, spotless ; a friend, kind, generous and 
true. Mr. Simons, for a quarter of a century has represented 
the Society of his State in the General Meetings of the Cin- 
cinnati. Ever efficient, wise and courteous, he was chosen in 
1872 Vice-President General, and held this position to the 
date of his death. In his native State he filled with conspic- 
uous honor and ability, various public trusts, among them for 
many years, that of Speaker of the House of Representatives 
of the State. 

In the melancholy event hereby announced the General So- 
ciety of the Cincinnati experience a sad affliction in the death 
of a dearly cherished companion, and a serious loss in the 
withdrawal of his wise and conservative counsels. 

HAMILTON FISH, 

President- General. 

George W. Harris, 

secretary- General. 

The following Preamble and Resolutions were also unani- 
mously adopted : 

In the midst of mourning for our lamented President, death 
has again stricken from the roll of the Cincinnati Society a 
member whose fame as a soldier extends from ocean to ocean. 
A veteran has passed away: the name of Lieut-General 
Richard H. Anderson is now a part of the history of the 
Confederate war. 

He was a graduate of West Point, and served in the United 
States army : During the war with Mexico, he distinguished 
himself as a soldier, and in the appreciation thereof, the Legis- 
lature of South Carolina presented him with a sword. In 
1 86 1, when his native State determined to assert her sover- 
eignty and re-establish those principles which were declared 
one hundred and three years ago by the Declaration of Inde- 



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pendence, Richard H. Anderson resigned his commission in 
the United States army and tendered his services to South 
Carolina. From that time forward he devoted himself to 
duty, first in South Carolina, then in Pensacola, from whence 
he was called to Virginia. 

There he distinguished himself in many a hard-fought bat- 
tle, and gained the soubriquet of " Fighting Dick Anderson." 
He Avas relied on in every emergency by his great comman- 
der, Gen. Robert E. Lee, who made him one of the right 
arms of his grand army. 

Our friend has fought the battle of life and won the victory ; 
his name is enshrined in the heart of every soldier of the 
Army of Northern Virginia ; and his fame as a soldier is 
inscribed on the roll of honor. As a member of this Society 
we mourn his loss: Be it, therefore, 

Resolved, That in the death of Lieut-General Richard H. 
Anderson, the Cincinnati Society have lost an eminent mem- 
ber, and the State, one of her most distinguished sons. 

Resolved, That a page on the minute book be inscribed with 
his name, rank, birth and death, and a list of the battles in 
Mexico, and elsewhere, where he most distinguished himself. 

Resolved, That the respectful sympathies of the members 
of this Society, be tendered to his bereaved family. 

Resolved, That a copy of this Preamble and Resolutions be 
sent to his family. 

Resolved, That this Preamble and Resolutions be published 
in the News and Courier, 



Gen. WILMOT G. DeSAUSSURE. . . President. 
Rev. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . . . Vice-President. 



1880. 



JAMES SIMONS 

T. PINCKNEY LOWNDES 
S. WRAGG SIMONS. . . 
MAHAM HAIG 



Secretary. 
Treasurer. 




Standing Committee : 



Evan Edwards, 
Dr. Henry W. DeSaussure, 
R. Q. Pinckney, 



Hopson Pinckney, 
B. H. Read, 
H. M. Haig, 



W. L. Campbell. 



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On 4th July, 1880, the President submitted to the Society 
a circular from Hon. W. A. Courtenay, Chairman of a Com- 
mittee of Citizens of South Carolina, relative to the Centen- 
nial Celebration of the Battle of Cowpens, and the proposed 
erection of a monument upon the battle ground. He also 
submitted a copy of his circular letter to the Presidents of the 
several other Cincinnati Societies upon this subject. 



LIST OF OFFICERS 

Commissioned by the State of South Carolina, in the Regular 
■Regiments raised for the Revolutionary War, and which Reg- 
iments subsequently became a part of the Continental troops. 

The list is taken from the journals of the Council of Safety 
as published by the Historical Society of South Carolina. 

The A. A. 28th March, 1778, 4th Stat, at Large, 410, reads : 
" Whereas, a regard for our own welfare, and the interests of 
America, renders it indispensably necessary that the six regi- 
ments of this State on the Continental establishment should be 
completed without delay," &c. 

See also Gibbes' Documentary Hist. So. Ca., vol. 1, p. 6. 

In Ramsay's Revolution, v. 2, p. 101, is given an account 
of the Continental troops in South Carolina. He says : " The 
officers very readily agreed to exchange their Provincial for 
Continental commissions, and were in consequence thereof 
considered as a part of the army of the United States. 

General George Washington's Order, 4th July, 1775 : 

" The Continental Congress having now taken all the troops 
of the several Colonies, which have been raised, or may be 
hereafter raised, for the support and defence of the liberties 
of America, into their pay and service, they are now the 
troops of the United Provinces of North America," etc. 

The six regiments referred to in A. A., 1778, appear to 
have been the following, to wit : 



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First Regiment of Foot, Col. Christopher Gadsden. 
Second Regiment of Foot, Col. William Moultrie. 
Regiment of Rangers,* Col. William Thomson. 
Regiment of Artillery, Col. Owen Roberts. 
First Regiment of Riflemen, Col. Isaac Huger. 
Second Regiment of Riflemen, Col. Thomas Sumter. 

*The Regiment of Rangers is given as above, because it 
was raised cotemporaneously with the First and Second Regi- 
ments of Foot ; because, as appears in Gen. Moultrie's Order 
Book, Col. Thomson commanded the Third Regiment, and 
James Mayson, the Major of the Regiment of Rangers, is 
found in the same Order Book as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
Third Regiment ; and also because several officers of the 
Third Regiment are found as among the earliest members of 
the Cincinnati Society of South Carolina. In Dr. Johnson's 
Reminiscences, this Regiment is repeatedly called the third. 

The Regiment of Light Dragoons, mentioned in Ramsay's 
Revolution, appears to have been raised after Gen. Prevost's 
invasion in the spring of 1779; possibly, after the capitula- 
tion of Charleston, in May, 1780. From the correspondence 
which appears in Gibbes' Documentary History of South 
Carolina, it is very doubtful whether this Regiment was ever 
upon the Continental establishment. 

By the correspondence in Gibbes' Documentary History of 
South Carolina, there appears to have been a Second Regi- 
ment of Light Dragoons, of which Hezekiah Maham was 
Colonel. 

From the same correspondence, Col. Wade Hampton ap- 
pears to have raised four Companies of Cavalry under A. A., 
1782 (Jacksonborough Assembly), authorizing the raising of 
1,300 men for Continental service. 



Christopher Gadsden 

Isaac Huger 

Owen Roberts. 

William Moultrie 

Isaac Motte 

Alexander Mcintosh 

Chas. Cotesworth Pinckney 

Barnard Elliott 

Francis Marion 

William Cattell 

Peter Horry 

Daniel Horry 

Adam McDonald 

Thomas Lynch, Jr 

William Scott 



Colonel 

Lieut. -Colonel 

Major 

Colonel 

Lieut. -Colonel 

Major 

Captain 



1st Regiment Foot. 



2nd 



16th June, 1775. 



17th 



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John Barnwell iCaptain. 

Michael Eveleigh 

James McDonald 

Isaac Harleston .... 

Thomas Pinckney 

Francis Huger 

William Mason 

Edward Hyrne 

Roger G. Saunders 



17th June, 1775. 



The appointments of Captains and Lieutenants of this date did 
Regiments ; probably the officers drew. 
Benjamin Cattell 
Charles Motte.. 
Anthony Ashby 
James Ladson 



John Vanderhorst 

John Mowatt 

Thomas Elliott 

*William Oliphant 

Glen Drayton 

Joseph Ioor. 

Robert Armstrong 

John Blake 

Alexander McQueen 

James Peronneau 

Richard Shubrick 

Richard Fuller 

Richard Singleton 

John Allen Walter 

Benjamin Dickenson 

William Charnock 

Thomas Lesesne 

Thomas Moultrie... 

William Massey 

Andrew D'Ellient 

John Sandford Dart 

Thomas Evance 

George Turner 

Ephraim Mitchell 

Henry Hughes 

Simeon Theus 

Press Smith 

Philip Neyle 

Joseph Elliott 

Joseph Jenkins 

William Hext 

Daniel Mazyck 

Jacob Shubrick 

John Farr 

Thomas Dunbar 

George Eveleigh 

William Moultrie, Son of 

Gen. M 

Thomas Hall.. 

Henry Gray 

Isaac Dubose 



Captain 

1 1 

Lieutenant. 



Adjutant 

Paymaster 

Second Lieutenant 



1st Regiment Foot, 
land " " 
1st '« " 
2nd " " 

1st f, " 
« « 11 



2nd 



not designate the 
17th June, 1775. 



20th 
c 

1 8 th 



* See Garden's Anecdotes, First Series, p. 372, as to this officer's forfeiture of claim. 



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James Fowler Baker 

Adrian Prevaux 

Basil Jackson 

William Partridge 

Charles Lining 

George Gray , 

Allard Belin 

John Heard 

Benjamin Huger 

George Cogdell 

Benjamin Tutt , 

John Bowie , 

William Richardson , 

William Mouatt 

William Valentine 

Gabriel Marion, Jr 

Budd 

Dr. Hugh Rose 

Dr. John Cleiland.. 

George Nixon 

Richard Brook Roberts. 

William Mitchell 

Paul Townsend 



jSurgeon 

I Second Lieutenant 



1st Regiment Foot, 



Second Lieutenant 



Lieut. Fireworker. 

Major 

Captain 



ist 


I t 


ISt 


« 


( ( 


II 


u 


II 



Second Lieutenant: 



Surgeon 

Surgeon 

Surgeon's Mate.... 

Adjutant 

Second Lieutenant 
Lieut. Fireworker. 
Paymaster 



Regiment Artillery 
'' Riflemen 



ist " Foot 

Crf cc ci 

2nd " " 
Regiment Artillery 

2d Regiment Foot 
» it n 

Regiment Artillery 



| ioth July, 1775. 
ist December, " 
it 11 ic 

25th « " 
26th " " 
27th " " 

7th Feb'y, 1776. 



25th 



23d " 
24th " 



2d July, 1775. 

29th Dec., " 
9th Jan'y, 1776. 



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LIST OF OFFICERS 

Whose names appear, from time to time, during Ijy8 and 1779, 
in an old Order Book of troops wider Generals Moultrie, Howe 
and Lincoln. 



Few of these names, if any, appear in the list taken from 
the journals of the Council of Safety. The book is a copy, 
and is among the records of the Historical Society ot South 
Carolina. It begins in Charleston, 3d June, 1778, and ends 
at Camp Galphin's, 1st May, 1779 : 



Capt. David Hopkins 

Lieut. Louis DeSaussure 

Lieut. Robert Gaston 

Lieut. Isaac Crowther 

Lieut. James Robeson 

Lieut. Benjamin Newsom... 

Capt. Uriah Goodwyn 

Lieut. Richard Jones 

Lieut. David Edmunds 

Lieut Benjamin Hodges... 
Lieut. William Fitzpatrick. 
Lieut. -Col James Mayson. 

Capt. Oliver Towles 

Lieut, John Davis 

Lieut. William Taggart ... 

Lieut. John Goodwyn 

Col. William Thomson 

Capt. Richard Brown 

Lieut. William Goodwyn... 

Lieut. Luke Mason 

Capt. Robert Lyell 

Capt Felix Warley 

Capt. John C. Smith 

Lieut. Henry Ramsay 

Capt. Joseph Warley 

Capt. Donaldson... ... 

Lieut. Cato West 

Lieut. Henry Peronneau 

Major Horry 

Major DeBraham 

Lieut. Paul Warley 

Capt. Caldwell 

Col. N Eveleigh 

Lieut. George Liddell 

Capt. Joseph Harthhorn .... 

Gen. Howe 

Gen Lincoln 

Lieut Aaron Smith 

Col. Sumter 

Lieut. Joel Hardaway 

Capt. Coit 

Capt. Doggatt '.. 



Third Regiment. 

Col Thomson's Regiment. 



Third Regiment. 

Col. Thomson's Regiment. 

Col. Thomson's Regiment. 



Col. Thomson's Regiment. South Car- 
olina Continental Troops. . 



Col. Motte's Regiment. 

Engineer Corps. 

Col. Motte's Regiment. 

Dep. Adjutant General. 

Third Regiment, Col Thomson. 

Sixth Regiment, South Carolina. 



Sixth Regiment. 
Sixth Regiment. 



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Capt. Boyes ■ 

Lieut. Lacy 

Lieut. Buchanan 

Lieut Baker 

Major John Faucherand Grimke . 

Lieut. Field Farrar 

Lieut. Thomson 

Capt. Hart 

Lieut. John Hennenton 

John Knapp 

Capt. Donaldson 

Lieut. Roux 

Stephen Drayton 

Lieut. John Jones 

Lieut. Caddett.. ... 

Lieut. Charles McGinnes 

Lieut. George Liddell 

Major Samuel Wise — 

Lieut. John Daniel 

Capt. Keith 

Col. Joseph Vannet 

Capt. Felix Warley 

Capt. Richard Brown 

Capt. David Hopkins . 

Capt. John C. Smith 

Capt. Joseph Warley 

Capt. Uriah Goodwyn 

Capt William Caldwell 

Capt. Oliver Towles 

Capt. Field Farrar 

Capt George Liddell 

1st Lieut. John Hennenton 

1st Lieut. Louis DeSaussure. 

1st Lieut. Joel Hardaway 

1st Lieut. Richard Jones 

1st Lieut. Luke Mayson 

1st Lieut. John Davis 

1st Lieut. John Goodwyn 

1st Lieut. John Jones 

1st Lieut. William Taggart 

1st Lieut. John Knapp , 

2d Lieut. James Robeson 

2d Lieut. Robert Gaston 

2d Lieut. Aaron Smith 

2d Lieut. Benjamin Newsom 

Capt. Devaux 

Col. Elbert 

Col. Robert Field 

Col. Richardson 

Lieut.-Col. Henderson... 

James Martin 

Major William Armstrong 

Capt. Rayford 

Lieut. Charles Alexander 

Henry Dixon . 

Major Easton 

Lieut. George Petrie 

Major Harleston 



Dep. Adjutant General. 



Sixth Regiment. 
Adjutant. 

Col. Motte's Regiment. 
Dep. Adjutant-General. 



Third Regiment. 



1 



A Roster of Officers, 14th December, 
1778, probably of the Third Regiment, 
Col. Thomson. 



Sixth Regiment. 

Surgeon, appointed 14th November, 1778. 



Brigade Inspector. 

First Continental Regiment, So. Ca. 



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Dep. Adjutant-General. 












Of Georgia. 














Brigade Major, Col. Pinckney's Brigade. 



General Orders, Purisburg, 4th January, 1778. 

" Gen. Moultrie's Brigade is to be composed of the Conti- 
nental troops of the First, Third, Fifth and Sixth Battalions 
of South Carolina, and the Continental troops belonging to 
Georgia." 



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LIST OF OFFICERS 

Whose names appear in Moultrie's Memoirs, and Ramsay's 
Revolution, some of which are tiot included in the previous 
lists : 



Isaac Huger 

Alexander Mcintosh.. 

Benjamin Huger 

Hezekiah Maham 

Benjamin Tutt 

George Cogdell 

William Richardson . 

John Brown 

Francis Prince 

David Anderson 

Thomas Potts 

Thomas Sumter 

William Henderson... 

James Duff 

Rich'd Richardson, Jr. 

Samuel Taylor 

George Wage 

William Brown 

Daniel Horry 

Hezekiah Maham 

John Couturier 

John Hampton 

Benjamin Screven 

Richard Gough 

Thomas Giles 

Isaac Dubose 

Paggett 

Fishburne 

Pollard 

William Washington. 
James Simons 

Watts 

King 

Steward 

Gordon 

Finn 

Carson 

Drew 

McGunie 

Manning 

O. H. Williams 

Richard Hampton 

Wade Hampton 



Colonel 

Lieut -Colonel . 

Major 

Captain 



Lieut.-Colonel. 

Major 

Captain 



Colonel 
Major... 
Captain 



Captain 



Lieutenant. 



Lieutenant-Col. 
Cornet.. .. .. .. 

Captain 

Lieutenant 



Capt. Lieutenant 
Lieutenant 



Dep. Adjt.-Gen. 
Lieutenant-Col. 



ist Regt. Riflemen 

1st " " 

1st " «' 

ist " " 

ist " " 

ist " " 

ist " " 

ist " " 

ist " " 

ist " " 

ist " " 

2nd " " 

2nd " " 

2nd " 

2nd " " 

2nd " " 

2nd " " 

2nd " " 

Regt. Lt. Dragoons 



t( i< it 

Regt. Lt. Dragoons 
i" ii 

S.C.Cont'l Brigade 

II C| 

11 it 
Cav 3d Regt Dra'ns 



Moultrie's M. & 
March, i776,Ramsay's R. 



Artillery., 



Legion Infantry. 



1778. Ramsay's R. 



1778. Ramsay's R. 



Gibbes' Doc. History _ 

Lossing, Moultrie, Ramsay, Gibbe* 



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LIST OF OFFICERS 

Of Col. William Thomson 's Regiment of Rangers, as well as 
can be ascertained from the Journals of the Council of Safety, 
from Moultrie's Memoirs and Ramsay's Revolution. 

If this Regiment afterwards became the Third Regiment, 
as surmised on previous page, another list of officers will be 
found among the officers extracted from Moultrie's Order 
Book. 

The list now given were those first commissioned : 



William Thomson .. 

James Mayson 

Samuel Wise 

Ezekiel Polk 

John Caldwell 

Ely Kershaw 

Robert Goodwyn 

Moses Kirkland 

Edward Richardson... 
Thomas Woodward... 

John Purvis 

John L. P. Imhoff. ... 

Charles Heatley 

Allan Cameron 

Richard Winn 

James Donaldson 

Hugh^Middleton 

Lewis Dutarque 

Francis Boykin 

Samuel Watson 

John Chesnut 

Dr. Alexander Rogers 
John Esom 



Lieut -Colonel 

Major 

Captain 



Regt. of Rangers. 



First Lieutenant 



Paymaster 
Surgeon .. 
Adjutant.. 



18th June, 1775. 



21st 
14th July 



1776. 



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